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Developing a device to help make CPR more effective in babies and childrenUniversity College London | Professor Mark Peters
Professor Peters and his team want to develop new devices that help doctors and nurses deliver more effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, to babies and children. When the heart stops in cardiac arrest, the brain is starved of ...
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How do genetics make some people ‘fatter but healthy’University of Exeter | Professor Tim M Frayling
In general, being overweight or obese is linked to a higher risk of heart and circulatory diseases. However, some people who are overweight do not have this increased risk, and experts believe this is due to the way fat is distributed insid...
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What controls platelet secretion in blood clotting?University of Sheffield | Professor Martina E Daly
When blood vessels are injured, cells called platelets gather at the site of injury, forming a clot to stop excessive bleeding. At the injury site, platelets release a mixture of proteins and small molecules that activate more platelets – a...
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Helping a defective ion channel protein get to its correct location in long QT syndromeUniversity of Bristol | Dr Stephen Harmer
Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a condition that can cause an irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) due to abnormal electrical activity in the heart. An inherited form of LQTS, called long QT syndrome type 1 (LQT1), is a cause of sudden cardiac deat...
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Understanding how gene mutations cause arrhythmiaImperial College London | Professor Dr Thomas Brand
When we exercise, increased amounts of adrenaline circulate in our body stimulating the heart to beat faster. Adrenaline works by stimulating another molecule called cyclic AMP (cAMP) which is recognised by protein molecules in heart cells....
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Research excellence at Imperial College LondonImperial College London | Professor Martin Wilkins
By investing in research the BHF are supporting scientists to make potentially life-saving discoveries, which could help us beat the heartbreak caused by heart and circulatory diseases across the world. But sometimes it takes more than a on...
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How the Piezo1 protein helps endothelial cells respond to stretchUniversity of Leeds | Professor David Beech
Professor David Beech and colleagues at the University of Leeds have been awarded a PhD studentship to allow a young researcher to study the physical forces within blood vessels. They have shown that a protein called Piezo1, an ion chan...
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Could drugs that target faulty collagen treat brain haemorrhage?University of Glasgow | Dr Tom Van Agtmael
Dr Tom Van Agtmael and his team at the University of Glasgow are studying how blood vessel diseases lead to haemorrhage, or bleeding, in the brain. Around 15 percent of strokes involve a brain bleed and they can be fatal, so we need to find...
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Growing new blood vesselsUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor Andrew Howard Baker
The BHF funds three pioneering Centres of Regenerative Medicine based at top UK universities. Each centre has a different scientific focus, but together they are moving us closer to our goal of unlocking ways to repair the damage caused by ...