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How the heart adapts to the body's needsUniversity of Dundee | Dr Niall Fraser
The heart is an adaptable organ, having in-built reversible mechanisms that enable it to meet the needs of the body. One of these mechanisms involves changing the chemical composition of some of its existing proteins – which is a much quick...
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How does carbon monoxide affect the normal heart beat?University of Leeds | Professor Chris Peers
Carbon monoxide inhalation is the most common form of death by poisoning and can cause dangerous disruption to heart rhythm. Professor Chris Peers and co-workers based at the University of Leeds are carrying out BHF-funded research into the...
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Atherosclerosis - is RhoG an important regulator of platelet stickiness?University of Bristol | Professor Alastair Poole
Chest pain (angina) and heart attacks are caused by atherosclerosis, a condition that develops over years as fatty deposits called plaques build up in the artery walls. If a fatty plaque ruptures, a clot can form that blocks a vessel leadin...
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Using nanomaterials to lower cholesterolUniversity of Surrey | Dr Daniel Whelligan
Atherosclerosis, where blood vessels become ‘furred up’ and narrowed, is a major cause of death and disability in the UK. Statins are used to lower cholesterol for those with, atherosclerosis but they are not always well tolerated. There ar...
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How fibrin networks form a blood clotUniversity of Leeds | Professor Robert Ariens
Supervised by Professor Robert Ariens, a PhD student is investigating the intricate processes behind blood clotting – the process that prevents excessive bleeding after an injury. Blood clotting is a rapid process, during which a prote...
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Finding ways to repair damaged blood vessels in diabetesUniversity of Leeds | Dr Richard Cubbon
People with diabetes are at increased risk of heart attacks and strokes because of damaged blood vessels. This is in part because diabetes interferes with the body's repair of blood vessels, which may be because of the reduced action of a p...
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Why do some patients with heart failure have a normal ejection fraction?University of East Anglia | Professor Michael Frenneaux
People with heart failure experience symptoms such as breathlessness, fatigue and swelling that develop when the heart struggles to pump blood efficiently around the body. But some people with symptoms of heart failure appear to have hearts...
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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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Determining the role of fractalkine in the immune response after a heart attackNewcastle University | Professor Helen M Arthur
Our immune system evolved to fight infection and promote wound healing after injury. During a heart attack, injury is caused to the heart muscle by a blocked blood vessel. Though there is no infection immune cells found in the blood respond...
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10 heart drugs with weird origins
We take medicines every day ? but do you think about where they come from? Most modern drugs are created in the lab ? but these have bizarre origins.