Scientists have discovered a substance with an unusual effect on the heart

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Ученые открыли вещество с необычным влиянием на сердце This protein prolongs life, improves the functioning of the heart muscle.

American researchers representing the University of California, San Diego, found a way to slow down the aging process of the heart. After a series of experiments on fruit flies fruit flies, they found that to keep the heart muscle in a more healthy and active helps protein vinculin.

In the course of testing specialists has made of extending the life of fruit flies to nine weeks, while the average life expectancy of insects of this type does not exceed six weeks. Life flies increased after the researchers activated an additional copy of the gene encoding the protein vinculin.

Cardiac muscle is formed by a fabric composed of cells of cardiomyocytes. Vinculin contained in the structures of the cells of the heart tissue – cardiomyocytes. Due to the cardiomyocytes cells are in contact with each other, and when as they age they begin to produce less of the protein, the ability to contract from the muscle tissue is deteriorating.

Scientists have been able to make this negative for the heart of the process froze. When researchers are working on the genes responsible for the activity of production masculine, muscle tissue would not yield the characteristic age-related weakening, it has fallen still intense.

“A high level of protein vinculin involved in the formation of connections between cells and extracellular matrix, prevents the aging of the heart in insects. If you develop ways of increasing the activity vinculin in the human heart, it will prolong the life of the people,” was the opinion of scientific experts.

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