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Blood flow
hideBlood flow is the flow of blood in the cardiovascular system.
It can be calculated by dividing the vascular resistance into the pressure gradient.
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News tagged with blood flow
Stroke and heart disease trigger revealed in new research
Nov 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have identified the trigger that leads to the arteries becoming damaged in the disease atherosclerosis, which causes heart attacks and strokes, in research published today in the ...
New tool for helping pediatric heart surgery
Nov 24, 2009 |
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A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University has developed a way to simulate blood flow on the computer to optimize surgical designs. It is the basis of a new tool that may help ...
Twins joined at head successfully separated (Update 2)
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A team of 16 surgeons and nurses successfully concluded 25 hours of delicate surgery Tuesday to separate twin Bangladeshi girls who had been joined at their heads, sharing blood vessels and brain ...
Washing away painful wounds
Aug 26, 2009 |
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More than six million people in the U.S. suffer from persistent wounds -- open sores that never seem to heal or, once apparently healed, return with a vengeance. The bedridden elderly and infirm are prone ...
Slipper-shaped blood cells
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Red blood cells, which make up 45 percent of blood, normally take the shape of circular cushions with a dimple on either side. But they can sometimes deform into an asymmetrical slipper shape. A team of physicists ...
Balance organs affect brain blood flow
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 23, 2009 |
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The organs of the inner ear have a direct effect on brain blood flow, independent of blood pressure and CO2 levels in the blood. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience used a series of human centrifu ...
Two cardiovascular proteins pose a double whammy in Alzheimer's
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Dec 21, 2008 |
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Researchers have found that two proteins which work in tandem in the brain's blood vessels present a double whammy in Alzheimer's disease. Not only do the proteins lessen blood flow in the brain, but they also reduce the ...
Your brain on -- and off -- caffeine
May 01, 2009 |
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Ever miss your daily cup of coffee and subsequently get a pounding headache? According to reports from consumers of coffee and other caffeinated products, caffeine withdrawal is often characterized by a headache, ...
Blood vessel bends and branches put the brakes on statins
Jul 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New British Heart Foundation (BHF) research revealed today suggests for the first time that the way blood flows through our arteries may boost an antioxidant effect of statin medicines. The discovery at Imperial ...
Simple finger device may help predict future heart attack
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Results of a Mayo Clinic study show that a simple, noninvasive finger sensor test is "highly predictive" of a major cardiac event, such as a heart attack or stroke, for people who are considered at low or moderate risk, according ...
After years of research, drug for 'female sexual dysfunction' remains elusive
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 27, 2009 |
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The pharmaceutical industry's push to find a female version of Viagra has been full of letdowns.
While you were sleeping: Sleep apnea's effect on the brain may be more severe than previously thought
Jun 03, 2009 |
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It has been linked to learning impairment, stroke and premature death. Now research from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has found that snoring associated with sleep apnoea may impair brain function more than previously ...
A rush of blood to the head -- anger increases blood flow
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Mental stress causes carotid artery dilation and increases brain blood flow. A series of ultrasound experiments, described in BioMed Central's open access journal Cardiovascular Ultrasound, also found that this dilatory reflex ...
New imaging analysis predicts brain tumor survival
Apr 19, 2009 |
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As early as one week after beginning treatment for brain tumors, a new imaging analysis method was able to predict which patients would live longer, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center ...
Cracking the spatial memory code
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Researchers have shown that they can tell where a person is "standing" within a virtual reality room on the basis of the pattern of activity in the brain alone. The findings, published online on March 12th in Current Biology, a Cell ...
