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Investigating a new way to prevent tissue remodelling in heart diseaseUniversity of Manchester | Dr Delvac Oceandy
Dr Delvac Oceandy and his team at the University of Manchester are studying if changing calcium levels in cells which help maintain tissue structure in many organs including the heart, called fibroblasts, could help to prevent tissues ‘remo...
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Understanding autophagy; a cellular maintenance system that goes wrong in heart failureKing's College London | Dr Joseph Burgoyne
Over half a million people in the UK have been diagnosed with heart failure, when the heart lacks the strength to pump blood around the body efficiently. The condition gets worse over time, and can be severely debilitating and distressing. ...
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Understanding the role of hibernating cells in atherosclerosisUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Murray Clarke
Atherosclerosis is the build-up of fatty material inside arteries, and it causes most heart attacks and strokes. An important process in atherosclerosis is inflammation within the blood vessel wall. This is thought to be caused in part by d...
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Developing models to learn how diabetes leads to heart failureUniversity of Glasgow | Professor Gwyn Gould
Heart failure is more common in people with diabetes - but we do not fully understand why. One challenge is that it's hard to reproduce the conditions found in the diabetic heart in the laboratory, so there is a lack of experimental tools t...
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Understanding how calcium pores open and close when the heart beatsUniversity of Glasgow | Dr William Fuller
When the heart beats, it’s essential that all heart muscle cells contract at the same time. To achieve this, tiny pores in the heart cells open simultaneously to allow calcium molecules to pass through, which in turn signal to the heart cel...
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Studying the proteins responsible for medical device bacterial infectionsUniversity of York | Dr Christoph Baumann
Dr Christoph Baumann from the University of York is working out which proteins help the bacterium Staphylococcus epidermidis to stick together to form ‘biofilms’. This bacterium is a common cause of hospital infections, gro...
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How a protein called prelamin A is involved in cardiomyopathy and ageingKing's College London | Professor Catherine Shanahan
Professor Catherine Shanahan and her team at King’s College London are studying a protein called prelamin A. This toxic protein can accumulate in heart muscle cells causing them to function less efficiently, and this can lead to heart failu...
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Studying how stem cells turn into heart muscle cells during developmentCardiff University | Dr Branko Latinkic
Dr Branko Latinkic and his team at the University of Cardiff are developing new ways to study heart development. We don’t fully understand how the heart muscle forms, and it is difficult to study heart development in mammals because emb...
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Growing new heart muscle to help heart attack patientsUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Sanjay Sinha
Regenerative medicine is an area of research that has the potential to revolutionise the care of patients with heart and circulatory disease, especially after life-threatening events such as a heart attack. After a heart attack, any damage ...
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How fish oils keep our heart and blood vessels healthyUniversity of Reading | Dr Alister McNeish
We know that eating fish is good for our heart health. Omega-3 fish oils (DHA and EPA) relax blood vessels and reduce blood pressure, bringing down the risk of heart and circulatory disease. Some studies suggest that fish oils relax blood v...