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Missing or mutated 'clock' gene linked to vascular disease

Missing or mutated 'clock' gene linked to vascular disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

The circadian clocks that set the rhythmic motion of our bodies for wakeful days and sleepy nights can also set us up for vascular disease when broken, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.





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Importance of preventing congestion in heart failure

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Preventing vascular congestion is an important mediator in heart failure, reports a study in the June issue of the Journal of Cardiac Failure.


Low lead levels in children can affect cardiovascular responses to stress

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Even low levels of lead found in the blood during early childhood can adversely affect how the child's cardiovascular system responds to stress and could possibly lead to hypertension later in life, according to a study from ...


Researchers find vitamin B1 deficiency key to vascular problems for diabetic patients

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created Aug 07, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 0

Researchers at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, have discovered that deficiency of thiamine – Vitamin B1 - may be key to a range of vascular problems for people with diabetes. They have also solved the mystery ...


Biomarkers predict brain tumor's response to therapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A report in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, highlights a new biomarker that may be useful in identifying patients with recurrent glioblastoma, or brain tumors, who would respon ...


Researcher to provide new insight for treating vascular disease

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created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The blood circulates through the body in an intricate process that researchers are only beginning to understand. Now, University of Missouri researcher Steven Segal has received the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's ...


Single gene defect can cause stroke, other artery diseases

Single gene defect can cause stroke, other artery diseases

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For the first time, scientists have discovered a single gene defect that causes thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections as well as early onset coronary artery disease, ischemic stroke and Moyamoya disease. ...


Metastasis-promoting protein identified; could provide a prognostic test or target for breast cancer

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created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tumors that are about to progress and metastasize go through a process also seen in normal embryonic development, known as the epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT). Tumor cells revert to a less-differentiated state, ...


Is vitamin D deficiency linked to Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia?

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created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

There are several risk factors for the development of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Based on an increasing number of studies linking these risk factors with Vitamin D deficiency, an article in the current issue ...


Small birth size linked to changes in the cardiovascular system that predispose to later disease

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created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have found the first evidence that smaller size at birth is associated with specific alterations in the functioning of the heart and circulation in children and that these changes differ between boys and girls.


Scientists identify single microRNA that controls blood vessel development

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created Aug 11, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists from the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) and UCSF have identified a key regulatory factor that controls development of the human vascular system, the extensive network of arteries, veins, ...



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