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infarct [ɪnˈfɑːkt] n (Medicine / Pathology) a localized area of dead tissue (necrosis) resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to that part, esp by an embolus Also called infarction [via New Latin from Latin infarctus stuffed into, from farcīre to stuff] infarcted adj
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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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