News tagged with blood capillaries


People who participate in sports have better attention span than those in poor physical health, study finds

New scientific evidence seems to confirm the famous Roman saying "Mens sana in corpore sano". Researchers from the University of Granada have demonstrated that people who normally practice sport have a better ...

Health created Apr 10, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Flies model a potential sweet treatment for Parkinson's disease

Researchers from Tel Aviv University describe experiments that could lead to a new approach for treating Parkinson's disease (PD) using a common sweetener, mannitol. This research is presented today at the Genetics Society ...

Genetics created Apr 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New technology measures oxygen in individual red blood cells in real time

In an engineering breakthrough, a Washington University in St. Louis biomedical researcher has discovered a way to use light and color to measure oxygen in individual red blood cells in real time.

Medical research created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

British team perform new 'warm' liver transplants

British surgeons said Friday they have performed successful liver transplants on two patients using a revolutionary technique which keeps the organ warm and functioning while outside the body.

Surgery created Mar 15, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel marker helps identify preeclampsia risk in pregnancy

Pregnant women who have a reduced number of capillaries under their skin during pregnancy may be at heightened risk for preeclampsia, according to research being presented at the American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual ...

Cardiology created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drugs targeting blood vessels may be candidates for treating Alzheimer's

(Medical Xpress)—University of British Columbia researchers have successfully normalized the production of blood vessels in the brain of mice with Alzheimer's disease (AD) by immunizing them with amyloid beta, a protein ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers show how blood vessels regroup after stroke

Rice scientists simulate "robot" cells to study the development of microvascular systems in the brain. The goal is to find a way to direct the development of vessels that feed oxygen-starved cells in stroke ...

Medical research created Feb 11, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tumor blood vessels prevent the spread of cancer cells

A lack of the protein endoglin in the blood vessels of tumour-bearing mice enables the spread of daughter tumours, according to researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Lund University in Sweden in a study published in the ...

Cancer created Feb 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers develop neuroimaging technique capturing cocaine's devastating effect on brain blood flow

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University have developed a high-resolution, 3D optical Doppler imaging tomography technique that captures the effects ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dual effect on tumor blood vessels

Angiogenesis is considered to be a major target of new cancer treatments. Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) is one of the key regulators of angiogenesis. Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center and Medical Faculty Mannheim, ...

Cancer created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study clarifies link between salt and hypertension

A review article by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) debunks the widely-believed concept that hypertension, or high blood pressure, is the result of excess salt causing an increased blood volume, ...

Health created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Blood vessels from your printer

Researchers have been working at growing tissue and organs in the laboratory for a long time. These days, tissue engineering enables us to build up artificial tissue, although science still hasn't been successful ...

Medical research created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0