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infarct

Death and scarring of a portion of the tissue in an organ, as a result of congestion or blockage of a blood vessel serving it. Myocardial infarction is the technical term for a heart attack.


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7,8) This intervention has been shown to facilitate cortical reorganization possibly by increasing the excitability of neurons innervating functionally relevant muscles and by increasing excitable neuronal tissue in the infarcted hemisphere.
But the dog trials that we've done suggest that you can salvage a third to two-thirds of that area of heart muscle that would have been infarcted [injured by lack of oxygen during a heart attack].
In a mouse model of myocardial infarction (heart attack), EP-3533-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was able to differentiate healthy, viable myocardium (heart muscle) from non-viable, infarcted myocardium.
 
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