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Watching the zebrafish heart beat in 3DUniversity of Glasgow | Dr Jonathan Taylor
As well as its early heart development being similar to mammals, the zebrafish embryo is transparent, which makes it ideal to study how the heart first starts to grow and beat. But the tiny zebrafish heart beats 150 times per minute, which ...
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The highs and lows of stress in the heartUniversity of Reading | Professor Angela Clerk
Heart muscle cells work hard to pump blood through the body and are subjected to a number of stresses, including oxidative stresses, where high levels of molecules called reactive oxygen species can cause death of heart muscle cells. This c...
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Finding ways to help people cope after the death of a loved one following a cardiac arrestSwansea University | Professor Paul Bennett
Around two thirds of heart attacks happen at home. The person calling for the ambulance, often a friend or relative, will be instructed to conduct cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR). But only around five per cent of people who receive CPR...
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Could extra salt in the diet help to prevent pre-eclampsia?University of Nottingham | Dr Hiten Mistry
BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow Dr Hiten Mistry is working out if salt intake influences development of pre-eclampsia, a condition affecting pregnant women and causing high blood pressure and protein in the urine. Pre-eclamps...
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Can stem cells in the heart of mice teach us about human heart repair?Imperial College London | Professor Michael Schneider
Unlike some other animals, like the zebrafish, the human heart cannot heal itself by replacing damaged heart cells with new heart muscle cells. Despite this, it is now known that the heart does contain stem cells – cells that are able to d...
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Deciphering the roles of BMP9 and BMP10 in heart and lung health and diseaseUniversity of Cambridge | Professor Nicholas Morrell
Pulmonary arterial hypertension, or PAH, is a serious condition where the small arteries inside the lungs become narrow. This puts a strain on the heart, which has to pump harder to force the blood supply through these narrowed lung vessels...
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Understanding the mechanism of cell growth that leads to thickening of blood vesselsUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Helle F Jorgensen
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are part of the blood vessels wall. When they multiply more than they should, it leads to a thickening in the blood vessel . This occurs during atherosclerosis where fatty materials builds up in the lini...
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Can we use big data to help accurately diagnose and predict the outcome of stroke?University of Nottingham | Professor Philip Bath
A stroke happens when the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off, causing brain cells to become damaged or die. In a mini stroke, also known as a transient ischaemic attack (TIA), the disruption in blood flow is only temporary and peo...
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Switching on blood vessel regeneration after a heart attackUniversity of Oxford | Professor Sarah De Val
The growth of new blood vessels could help to repair the damage caused to the heart by a heart attack. But efforts to promote the growth of new blood vessels in the heart have been limited by a lack of understanding of the normal biological...
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How do our genes influence the aorta, the body’s main blood vessel?Imperial College London | Professor Stuart Cook
Supervised by Professor Stuart Cook, a Clinical Research Training Fellow is working out which genes determine the stiffness and size of the main blood vessel exiting the heart, the aorta. The dimensions and flexibility of this vessel can in...