Our analyses not only demonstrate that XEN cells have cardiac inducing ability but this also reveal differences between XEN cells and other heart-inducing endodermal cell lines.
To expand the list of candidate secreted factors that might account for the cardiac inducing ability of these extraembryonic endodermal cell lines, we analyzed the expression of the remaining 222 Venn-restricted genes.
Different techniques have been set up to study the remarkable cardiac regeneration ability of adult zebrafish.
Cardiac contraction ability is closely related to the size of myocardial ischemic area.
In diseases like ED, there is a need for a marker with a high negative predictive value for cardiac injury (ability to "rule out" the disease in patients with ED based on high sensitivity).
Left ventricular fractional shortening (LVFS), which is a common method for quantifying cardiac contractility or ability of the ventricle to eject blood, was used as the metric for comparison of the two groups' outcomes.
The inclusion criteria were elective or urgent cardiac surgery and ability to perform the confusion assessment method for the intensive care unit (CAM-ICU).
Seven factors explained the association between frailty indicators: physical ability, cardiac symptoms/disease, respiratory symptoms/disease, physiological measures, psychological problems, co-morbidities and visual impairment.
Seven factors were needed to adequately explain the association between the frailty indicators and were labelled as: physical ability, cardiac disease or symptoms, respiratory disease or symptoms, physiological measures, psychological problems, co morbidity and visual impairment.
CFI had a better ability than cardiac output to detect cardiac dysfunction (LVEF <40%) (area under the curve = 0.85 ± 0.02; P < 0.001).
