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A survival strategy for the cells lining our blood vesselsKing's College London | Professor Albert Ferro
Professor Albert Ferro and his colleagues at King’s College London are studying how a process called apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is involved in heart and circulatory disease. Endothelial cells line the inner surface of all bloo...
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The atrioventricular node - unravelling the intricacies behind our heart beatUniversity of Bristol | Professor Jules Hancox
Research that reveals more about how the heartbeat is controlled is important to our understanding of how the heart works and could potentially reveal new ways to treat some types of irregular heartbeat (arrhythmias). Our heart is divide...
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The link between ageing and heart diseaseKing's College London | Dr Gian De Nicola
Dr Gian De Nicola is a structural biologist. He examines the shape and size of biological molecules like proteins, and tries to determine how their shape is related to their function in the body. He has been working in Professor Michael Mar...
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How do proteins called NADPH oxidases control platelets in blood clots?University of Exeter | Dr Giordano Pula
Dr Giordano Pula and his team are studying the blood clotting process, with the aim of finding new ways to prevent life threatening blood clots. Platelets are small circulating cells that are required for blood clotting. If they become u...
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Identifying ways to predict a person’s risk of cardiovascular diseaseUniversity College London | Professor Dr Aroon D Hingorani
A BHF-funded consortium bringing together top researchers from University College London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Edinburgh, and the University of Bristol is analysing blood samples for a huge range of ...
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Finding efficient ways to regenerate the heart and blood vesselsUniversity of Oxford | Dr Nicola Smart
Damage to the lining of a blood vessel can lead to the accumulation of a fatty plaque (atherosclerosis) and also allows immune cells to infiltrate the vessel wall. These immune cells destroy the muscle and elastic layers of the blood vessel...
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Understanding how small arteries work, to shed light on high blood pressureUniversity of Manchester | Dr Adam Greenstein
The pressure of the blood flowing through your arteries is continuously adjusted to your need: during exercise, your heart beats quicker and blood pressure increases to make sure your muscles receive enough oxygen and nutrients to keep work...
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Studying calcium release from heart cells and what goes wrong in heart failureUniversity of St Andrews | Dr Samantha Pitt
Dr Samantha Pitt from the University of St Andrew’s is studying how calcium is released from heart cells to maintain a regular heartbeat, and what goes wrong in heart failure. In healthy people, controlled calcium release causes the heart t...
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Trying to detect Acute Type A aortic dissection (AAD) before it’s too lateUniversity of Liverpool | Dr Riaz Akhtar
The aorta is the major artery of the human circulation. It has to withstand very high pressures to distribute blood from the heart all around the body. Acute Type A aortic dissection (AAD) is an uncommon but very serious condition in which ...
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Is PECAM a candidate gene for cardiomyopathy?University of Oxford | Dr Ellie Tzima
Cardiomyopathies are diseases of the heart muscle that can either be inherited through a faulty gene or acquired later in life. Cardiomyopathies can be life-threatening because the heart is weakened and unable to pump blood to meet the dema...