News tagged with blood vessel walls
Why do people with Down syndrome have less cancer?
May 20, 2009 |
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Most cancers are rare in people with Down syndrome, whose overall cancer mortality is below 10 percent of that in the general population. Since they have an extra copy of chromosome 21, it's been proposed that people with ...
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To contract or not to contract: Decision controlled by 2 microRNAs
Aug 17, 2009 |
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New research has provided insight into the molecular regulators of the function of muscle cells in the walls of blood vessels, i.e., vascular smooth muscle cells. Specifically, the acquisition and/or maintenance of the ability ...
Identifying and disrupting key elements of malaria's 'sticky sack' adhesion strategy
Jul 11, 2008 |
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Malaria is one of the most devastating diseases afflicting humanity. It infects and debilitates about 600 million people and kills up to three million people every year, mainly in the wet tropical regions of the world. Children ...
High Blood Pressure In Older Adults Traced To Gene's Effects In Blood Vessels
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Jan 10, 2008 |
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Scientists have identified the gene that sets off a sequence of events in the blood vessels of otherwise healthy adults that can lead to high blood pressure. The disease process eventually makes conditions in vessels ripe ...
New strategy to combat cancer: Streamlining blood vessel walls
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Our blood vessels provide all growing tissues with oxygen and nutrients. The growth of blood vessels (a process termed angiogenesis) is indispensable for the proper functioning of organs and the repair of tissues when they ...
Stiffening arteries could change cell behavior
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Like skin that loses elasticity, blood vessels lose their pliability and stiffen with age. In more than half of the U.S. population over 65, this stiffening of the blood vessels is accompanied ...
Ideal nanoparticle cancer therapies surf the bloodstream
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Eric Shaqfeh studies blood at Stanford University, using computer models that simulate how the fluid and the cells it contains move around. On November 11 at a meeting of the scientific society AVS, he will present his latest ...
ACP releases new resource to help patients managing high blood pressure
Apr 21, 2009 |
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The American College of Physicians (ACP) today released "Know Your Numbers: A Guide to Managing High Blood Pressure." Available for free to ACP member physicians to distribute to patients and their families, the guidebook ...
'Normalizing' tumor vessels leaves cancer more benign
Feb 12, 2009 |
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A report publishing online on February 12th in the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, suggests a counterintuitive new method to make cancer less likely to spread: by normalizing the shape of tumors' blood vessels to ...
3-D MRI technique helps radiologists detect high-risk carotid disease
Sep 16, 2008 |
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Canadian researchers have used three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (3-D MRI) to accurately detect bleeding within the walls of diseased carotid arteries, a condition that may lead to a stroke. The results of the ...
Study in Circulation provides detail on how low blood flow promotes vascular disease
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Better understanding of signaling pathway to lead to new therapies Researchers have found the first direct proof that a key protein drives the clogging of arteries in two ways, and that lowering levels of it opens them up, a ...
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