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University of Houston: Exploring Pieces of Heart Muscle That Fail to Compact
March 05, 2021
HOUSTON, Texas, March 5 (TNSRes) -- The University of Houston issued the following news release:

University of Houston pharmacologist Mingfu Wu has been awarded $2.5 million from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to explore the cause of and therapeutic treatment for left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy (LVNC).

One type of LVNC originates when the heart is forming in utero and occurs when pieces of ridge-like heart muscle, called trabeculae, fail t . . .

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