The soleus muscle along with other muscles in the calves, form a strong muscular pump system for blood circulation. Your body ...

All muscles in the human body fit into one of three types or categories: "skeletal, smooth, and cardiac," explains Eric Hegedus, PT, PhD, a professor of rehabilitation sciences at Tufts University ...

No one can live without a heart pumping blood to the rest of the body. New research from the University of Missouri School of ...

Many smaller cardiac veins connect to it to make it the largest vein of the heart. The main function of the CS is to drain deoxygenated blood from the heart muscle into the right atrium.

The observed improvement in the heart muscle of the hypertensive patients treated with lisinopril is known as cardioreparation — a process that helps to reverse the remodeling of the heart.

Despite such vast biological diversity, it was believed until recently that the structure and function of the heart across mammals was the same. But research from my colleagues and I reveals that ...

Heart failure falls into two main categories based on the pumping function of the left ventricle. Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction occurs when the heart muscle weakens and cannot ...