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10 February 2026
Cleared to Attack
Using techniques such as single-cell RNA sequencing and high-resolution imaging with tissue clearing, this study in mice identifies a nerve subset called vagal sensory neurons (shown in magenta in this cleared mouse heart) that increase ventricular innervation in the heart after a heart attack (myocardial infarction). These neurons are revealed as part of a heart-brain neuroimmune loop that presents possible targets for MI therapies
Read the published research article here
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- Still from video from work by Saurabh Yadav and Van K. Ninh, and colleagues
- Department of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
- Published in Cell, January 2026
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