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Averting the harmful effects of high blood pressureUniversity of Oxford | Professor David Paterson
High blood pressure, or hypertension – is a risk factor for heart and circulatory disease. Research to understand how high blood pressure is controlled and what goes wrong in disease could reveal ways to prevent the harmful effects of high ...
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The importance of scaffolding proteins for heart cell functionKing's College London | Professor Franca Fraternali
Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle. It can run in families and can affect more than one member of a family. The disease is caused by faulty genes carried in a person’s DNA. Dr Franca Fraternali and her colleagues at King’s ...
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Finding out how a gene mutation causes dilated cardiomyopathyImperial College London | Professor Ralph H Knoll
In this studentship, the researchers will investigate how a mutated gene – the muscle LIM protein gene – causes dilated cardiomyopathy. Dilated cardiomyopathy is a relatively common inherited heart muscle disease, which can lead to heart fa...
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How Lrg1 regulates abnormal blood vessel growthUniversity College London | Professor Stephen Moss
Professors Stephen Moss and John Greenwood from University College London are interested in the growth of new blood vessels (a process called angiogenesis). This growth is an important repair process in the body. However, inappropriate grow...
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Understanding what triggers dangerous heart rhythm disturbancesImperial College London | Dr Junaid Zaman
Cardiologist Dr Junaid Zaman at Imperial College London has received a BHF Travel Fellowship to spend one year working in a lab at Stanford University in California, USA. The Stanford researchers are experts in understanding and treating da...
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Revealing the role of two proteins in congenital defects of the circulationUniversity College London | Dr Paul Frankel
The circulation system develops in the unborn baby in the earliest weeks and months of life. The human body has three main types of vessels: arteries that transport oxygenated blood from the heart to the organs, veins to carry poorly-oxygen...
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Finding out which chemical signals are required for stem cell repair of blood vessels in the heartUniversity of Leeds | Dr Andrew Smith
When the heart becomes damaged – for example, after a heart attack – this reduces the blood supply to the muscle cells which contract to pump blood around the body. Over time, this reduces the heart’s ability to pump. This is known as heart...
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Developing a new ‘virtual platelet’ to study blood clottingUniversity of Reading | Professor Jonathan Gibbins
Professor Jonathan Gibbins and his colleagues at the University of Reading are using a virtual model of a platelet to study blood clotting and look for new anti-clotting medicines to prevent people from having a heart attack or stroke. Pla...
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Inner space: a view from inside our arteriesUniversity of Strathclyde | Professor John G McCarron
Professor John McCarron and his team at the University of Strathclyde are studying the inner lining of blood vessels, called the endothelium. This cell layer senses changes in blood pressure, blood flow and blood composition, and sends sign...