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Targeting inflammatory cells to reduce the risks of obesityUniversity of Cambridge | Professor Antonio Vidal Puig
The release of fat from body fat tissue into the bloodstream is tightly regulated. However, in people who are overweight this regulation is disrupted and too much fat can be released into the blood and other tissues. When this happens, the ...
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Working out how obesity is a risk factor for blood vessel diseaseUniversity of Oxford | Professor Charalambos Antoniades
BHF Senior Clinical Research Fellow Professor Charalambos Antoniades is working out why obesity is a risk factor for blood vessel disease, leading to heart attacks and strokes. Fat, or adipose tissue, produces various molecules that hav...
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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 faulty heart valves formNewcastle University | Professor Deborah Henderson
Professor Deborah Henderson is studying how heart valves form, and what goes wrong when babies are born with a faulty valve. Abnormalities in heart valves, particularly the aortic valves, are common in babies. Although many cause no pro...
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Centre for Cardiovascular Drug Target DiscoveryUniversity of Oxford | Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe
Atherosclerosis is the build-up of fatty plaques in the walls of blood vessels which causes coronary heart disease. Pioneering work by BHF funded scientists is underpinning efforts to identify new medicines that can help control and prevent...
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Calcium transport though Orai channels in blood vesselsUniversity of Leeds | Professor David Beech
Professor David Beech and colleagues at the University of Leeds will study a newly-discovered type of mechanism for entry of calcium into endothelial cells, cells that line the inside of blood vessels. The novel mechanism of calcium entry i...
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Can tranexamic acid prevent or slow bleeding in the brain?University of Nottingham | Dr Robert Dineen
Bleeding into the brain can lead to stroke, and subsequent bleeds that continue afterwards put the patient at higher risk of death or disability. Tranexamic acid is a drug that is currently used against bleeding in acute trauma, and it also...