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Understanding how adrenal nodules can cause drug resistant hypertensionUniversity of Cambridge | Professor Morris Brown
High blood pressure is a major risk factor that can lead to heart attacks and strokes. In around 10% of patients, high blood pressure occurs because their adrenal gland produces too much of a hormone called aldosterone – this condition is c...
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Studying how fats called electrophiles could protect against heart diseaseKing's College London | Professor Philip Eaton
Professor Philip Eaton studies a protein in heart cells and blood vessels called soluble Epoxide Hydrolase, or sEH. Drugs that block this protein have been shown to protect against heart and circulatory disease. During previous research, ...
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Coronary Heart Disease Statistics 2010Booklet, 157, published on 18/10/2010
Designed for health professionals, medical researchers and anyone else with an interest in coronary heart disease (CHD), this book details extensive statistics on coronary heart disease rates and risk factor levels, by age, gender, socio-economic group and ethnic origin, as well as regionally, nationally, internationally and over time.
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Why antibodies turn against self after a transplantUniversity of Cambridge | Mr. Gavin J Pettigrew
Despite the success of transplantation, many transplants fail due to an immune process known as chronic rejection. Immune responses directed against the recipient's own proteins may provoke chronic rejection, with the development of antibod...
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Testing if phosphodiesterases could treat atrial fibrillationUniversity of Manchester | Dr Katharine Dibb
Dr Katharine Dibb and her colleagues at the University of Manchester are investigating a new way to treat the most common irregular heart rhythm, atrial fibrillation (AF). AF can lead to a person having a stroke or heart attack. Calciu...
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How VEGF makes blood vessels leakyUniversity College London | Professor Christiana Ruhrberg
Blood vessel disease contributes to heart attacks, strokes, blindness and lung disease, and the stimulation of new vessel growth is a promising treatment for these conditions. But an unwanted side effect of blood vessel growth is tissue swe...
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Do certain kinds of mechanical stress increase chances of atherosclerosis development?Imperial College London | Professor Peter Weinberg
In atherosclerosis, some parts of a single blood vessel appear to be more at risk of developing areas of fatty plaques – which can eventually rupture to cause a heart attack – than others. Professor Peter Weinberg and his team have been awa...
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How developing heart cells find their identityUniversity of East Anglia | Professor Andrea E Munsterberg
Professor Andrea Munsterberg is working out which molecules and signals play a role in heart formation in the developing embryo. Early on, immature cells that will form the heart, called progenitor ‘master’ cells, are instructed by signa...
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Annual Review 2010Booklet, 54 pages, published on 18/08/2010
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Developing BMP9 as a new therapy for pulmonary hypertensionUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Wei Li
Dr Wei Li and her team are looking for ways to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a serious condition where people have high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs. Current therapies relieve the symptoms but do not cure the d...