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Rebuilding broken hearts

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Volume 291, Issue 5, Pages 44-51

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SCI AMERICAN INC
DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican1104-44

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A heart broken by love usually heals with time, but damage to cardiac muscle caused by a heart attack gets progressively worse. Unlike liver or skin, heart tissue cannot regenerate, so the scar left after a heart attack remains a noncontractile dead zone.

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