BMP-7 Promotes Heart Regeneration

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/06/bmp-7-promotes-heart-regeneration/

BMP-7 is a myokine, involved in muscle growth and upregulated in response to exercise. It is also involved in the development of muscle tissue in early life. One of the reasons that researchers are interested in this gene and related mechanisms of muscle maintenance, growth, and regeneration is to be able to promote greater recovery in an injured heart. Heart muscle is one of the least regenerative tissues in the body, and this limits recovery from a heart attack and resilience to the harmful aged tissue environment. Activating pathways involved in development or exercise may be the road to therapies that can incrementally improve the present situation for older people with heart disease.

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