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University of Leeds | Dr Sreenivasan Ponnambalam

Dr Sreenivasan Ponnambalam and his colleagues at the University of Leeds are studying what controls new blood vessel growth, to find new ways of repairing damaged blood vessels. Blood vessels are an essential network of biological tubes su...

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University of Birmingham | Dr Alexandra Mazharian

Megakaryocytes (the cells which make platelets) have two proteins called LAIR-1 and PECAM-1 which seem to be important for keeping platelets in an inactive state in the bone marrow. Platelets help blood clotting to prevent bleeding but ...

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University of Cambridge | Dr Kevin O'Shaughnessy

The control of sodium and potassium salts in the body is important for regulating blood pressure. This balance is regulated in a special part of the kidneys called the distal convoluted tubule, or DCT. However, the exact mechanism used by t...

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University of Bristol | Professor Raimondo Ascione

Bypass surgery is a common treatment to restore healthy blood flow to the heart or limbs when arteries have become diseased; where a healthy blood vessel is grafted into the circulation to bypass a diseased section. Usually bypass grafts ar...

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Find out what sudden cardiac death is and why it happens from Senior Cardiac Nurse Ruth Goss.

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