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Understanding how common cancer drugs affect the heartUniversity of Reading | Professor Angela Clerk
Several drugs to treat cancer are known to have long-term side effects on the heart. Among them are drugs that impact a series of proteins which talk to each other, called the ERK1/2 pathway. This pathway promotes cancer, but it also protec...
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Developing computer models to help doctors manage aortic dissectionUniversity College London | Professor Stavroula Balabani
Supervised by mechanical engineer Dr Stavroula Balabani, the PhD student on this project is studying aortic dissection. Aortic dissection is a life threatening condition where the wall of the main blood vessel leaving the heart, the aorta, ...
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Getting FISSical to understand heart muscle contractionKing's College London | Dr Yin Biao Sun
Each heart beat is triggered by a pulse of calcium in a heart muscle cell, and is driven at the molecular level by myosin and actin filaments sliding past each other and generating the force for contraction. Calcium triggers contraction by ...
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Could statins be the reason for my lack of libido?
Our expert answers a question on the relation between the side effect of statins and a lack of sex drive.
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Investigating heart proteins that respond to stressUniversity of Reading | Professor Angela Clerk
Professor Angela Clerk is studying how certain signals that help the heart respond to stress are regulated in the heart. When the heart goes through a stressful event, such as high blood pressure or a heart attack, heart muscle cells die...
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How chemical changes in proteins affect the heartUniversity of Dundee | Dr William Fuller
The way in which proteins in the heart work can be altered by simple chemical changes to their composition. Stresses on the heart following a heart attack and occasionally treatment for a heart attack can lead to these chemical changes in p...
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Does Piezo1 help the heart sense mechanical stress?University of Leeds | Dr Neil Turner
Supervised by Dr Neil Turner, this PhD student is studying how a protein called Piezo1 helps the heart respond to mechanical stress, caused by increased force of contractions of heart muscle. Cardiac fibroblasts are cells that produce ‘s...
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Studying the role of zinc in blood clottingUniversity of St Andrews | Dr Alan Stewart
Supervised by Dr Alan Stewart, the PhD student on this project is studying how zinc is involved in blood clot formation and if zinc is important for why some heparin-based drugs do not work. There is a lot of evidence linking zinc to blo...
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Brain changes linked to emotion discovered in mysterious Takotsubo syndrome
Changes in areas of the brain associated with emotion have been identified in people with Takotsubo syndrome, according to research presented at the British Cardiovascular Society centenary conference in Manchester.