Cardiac injury is the disruption of normal cardiac myocyte membrane integrity resulting in the release of intracellular cytosolic and structural proteins such as troponin, creatine kinase, myoglobin, heart-type fatty acid binding protein, and lactate dehydrogenase into the extracellular space (e.g. blood). Causes of cardiac injury include trauma, toxins, and viral infection, but ischemia or infarction is the most common cause. Injury is usually considered irreversible.

 

MSD provides solutions to support and simplify your cardiac injury research needs. We offer assays and reagents to measure biomarkers such as cTroponin and FABP3.