News tagged with blood vessel cells

Breaching the blood-brain barrier: Researchers may have solved 100-year-old puzzle

Cornell University researchers may have solved a 100-year puzzle: How to safely open and close the blood-brain barrier so that therapies to treat Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis and cancers of the central nervous ...

Neuroscience Sep 13, 2011 | 4.9 / 5 (34) | 7 |

The real culprit behind hardened arteries? Stem cells, says landmark study

One of the top suspects behind killer vascular diseases is the victim of mistaken identity, according to researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, who used genetic tracing to help hunt down ...

Medical research Jun 06, 2012 | 5 / 5 (12) | 6 |

Successful strategy developed to regenerate blood vessels

Researchers at The University of Western Ontario have discovered a strategy for stimulating the formation of highly functional new blood vessels in tissues that are starved of oxygen. Dr. Geoffrey Pickering and Matthew Frontini ...

Medical research Apr 17, 2011 | 5 / 5 (8) | 0 |

Scientists one step closer to creating youthful heart patches from old cells

A new method of growing cardiac tissue is teaching old stem cells new tricks. The discovery, which transforms aged stem cells into cells that function like much younger ones, may one day enable scientists ...

Cardiology Nov 27, 2012 | 5 / 5 (6) | 0 |

A step forward in effort to regenerate damaged nerves

The carnage evident in disasters like car wrecks or wartime battles is oftentimes mirrored within the bodies of the people involved. A severe wound can leave blood vessels and nerves severed, bones broken, and cellular wreckage ...

Neuroscience Feb 21, 2012 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 0 |

Researchers shrink tumors, minimize side effects using tumor-homing peptide to deliver treatment

The trouble with most anti-cancer therapies is that they are lethal to most cells in the body, not just cancer cells. As a result, patients experience side effects like nausea, increased susceptibility to ...

Cancer Nov 21, 2011 | 5 / 5 (5) | 1 |

Scientists identify agent that can block fibrosis of skin, lungs

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified an agent that in lab tests protected the skin and lungs from fibrosis, a process that can ultimately end in organ failure and even death because ...

Medical research May 30, 2012 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0 |

Discovery of nitric oxide delivery mechanism may point to new avenue for treating high blood pressure

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have shed new light on blood pressure regulation with the discovery of an unexpected mechanism by which hemoglobin controls the delivery of nitric ...

Medical research Nov 14, 2012 | 5 / 5 (5) | 1 |

Gene therapy reprograms scar tissue in damaged hearts into healthy heart muscle

A cocktail of three specific genes can reprogram cells in the scars caused by heart attacks into functioning muscle cells, and the addition of a gene that stimulates the growth of blood vessels enhances that effect, said ...

Cardiology Jan 04, 2013 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0 |

Polluted air leads to disease by promoting widespread inflammation

Chronic inhalation of polluted air appears to activate a protein that triggers the release of white blood cells, setting off events that lead to widespread inflammation, according to new research in an animal model.

Medical research Apr 14, 2011 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0 |

Lung regeneration closer to reality with new discovery

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College say they have taken an important step forward in their quest to "turn on" lung regeneration -- an advance that could effectively treat millions of people suffering from respiratory ...

Medical research Oct 29, 2011 | 5 / 5 (4) | 3

Milk thistle hits prostate cancer two ways

(Medical Xpress) -- Tumors are gluttons – in order to fuel their astounding growth rate they must gorge. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal PLoS One pinpoints the compounds derived from milk thistle that best kill cancer cells ...

Cancer Apr 23, 2012 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0 |