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How heart failure affects heart muscle cells

University of Manchester | Professor Andrew Trafford

When you exercise or are frightened your heart pumps much harder due to the release of certain chemicals in the body. In heart diseases such as heart failure the muscle cells in the heart which are responsible for the pumping of blood fail ...

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Studying how fats called electrophiles could protect against heart disease

King'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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Can we repair damaged endothelial cells?

King's College London | Dr Lingfang Zeng

Supervised by Dr Lingfang Zeng, a PhD student will work out how we can turn ‘master’ cells within blood vessel walls into lining cells, to repair damaged blood vessels. Endothelial cells lining the inner surface of blood vessels form a sin...

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Understanding how different heart cells work together

Imperial College London | Professor Cesare M N Terracciano

Professor Cesare Terracciano's team is working out how different cells within the heart interact with each other and how these relationships affect the way the heart pumps. The heart muscle is made up of cells called cardiomyocytes, which...

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Building a genetic roadmap for congenital heart disease

University of Nottingham | Professor John David Brook

Congenital heart disease is an abnormality of the heart which can be diagnosed whilst the baby is still in the womb, but is usually discovered at birth. It affects about 1 in every 180 new-borns, but thanks to advances in early diagnosis an...

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Developing BMP9 as a new therapy for pulmonary hypertension

University 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...

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Understanding how blood vessels become leaky

University College London | Professor Patric Turowski

Blood vessel leakage into the surrounding tissue is common in many inflammatory diseases, and can occur in people with diabetes or after a stroke. A PhD student working with Dr Patric Turowski will learn more about the link between blood ve...