News tagged with blood vessels

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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

No increase in brain aneurysm rupture risk during pregnancy and delivery

For women with aneurysms involving the brain blood vessels, pregnancy and delivery don't appear to increase the risk of aneurysm rupture, reports a paper in the February issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. ...

Neuroscience created Feb 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Some stroke patients whose life support is withdrawn may have achieved a less-than-ideal

More than a third of patients who suffer a major bleeding in the brain and have their life support withdrawn might have eventually regained an acceptable level of functioning if life support had been sustained, suggests a ...

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

Reassuring evidence: Anticancer drug does not accelerate tumor growth after treatment ends

Studies in animals have raised concerns that tumors may grow faster after the anticancer drug sunitinib is discontinued. But oncologists and physicists who collaborated to analyze data from the largest study ...

Cancer created Feb 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Native Hawaiians have bleeding strokes at earlier age, independent of meth use

Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders have more bleeding strokes at an earlier age than other people independent of methamphetamine abuse, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International ...

Cardiology created Feb 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Traumatic brain injury complications common among US combat soldiers

U.S. soldiers in combat often suffer constricted blood vessels and increased pressure in the brain—significant complications of traumatic brain injuries, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's ...

Cardiology created Feb 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Damaged blood vessels loaded with amyloid worsen cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease

A team of researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College has discovered that amyloid peptides are harmful to the blood vessels that supply the brain with blood in Alzheimer's disease—thus accelerating cognitive decline by ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Feb 04, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Blood vessel cells coax colorectal cancer cells into more dangerous state

Blood vessels that supply oxygen and nutrients to tumors can also deliver something else - a signal that strengthens nearby cancer cells, making them more resistant to chemotherapy, more likely to spread to other organs and ...

Cancer created Feb 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Inactive people can achieve major health and fitness gains in a fraction of the time

With many of us struggling to get enough exercise, sport and exercise scientists at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and the University of Birmingham, under the lead of Professor Anton Wagenmakers, have been working ...

Health created Feb 01, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dementia: Cerebrolysin shows promise

Dementia patients may benefit from a promising new treatment called Cerebrolysin, according to the results of a systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. The authors brought together the most up-to-date eviden ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Jan 30, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chance finding reveals new control on blood vessels in developing brain

(Medical Xpress)—Zhen Huang freely admits he was not interested in blood vessels four years ago when he was studying brain development in a fetal mouse.

Medical research created Jan 24, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Don't ignore the snore: Snoring may be early sign of future health risks

Here's a wake-up call for snorers: Snoring may put you at a greater risk than those who are overweight, smoke or have high cholesterol to have thickening or abnormalities in the carotid artery, according to researchers at ...

Sleep apnea created Jan 24, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bioengineers discover the natural switch that controls spread of breast cancer cells

With a desire to inhibit metastasis, Cornell biomedical engineers have found the natural switch between the body's inflammatory response and how malignant breast cancer cells use the bloodstream to spread.

Cancer created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study confirms immune cells are guided by gradients

(Medical Xpress)—A group of researchers in Austria and Switzerland has for the first time proven that immune cells migrate along chemical concentration gradients. This process has long been assumed but ...

Immunology created Jan 18, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Study shows how immune cells navigate through the skin by sensing graded patterns of immobilized directional cues

A research paper by the group of Michael Sixt, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), published today in Science, provides new insights into how immune cells ...

Medical research created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast