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Could switching on PKD improve the heart’s ability to pump after heart failure?King's College London | Professor Jonathan Kentish
Professor Jonathan Kentish and his team at King’s College London are working out if switching on an enzyme called protein kinase D (PKD) could help the heart to pump blood around the body after heart failure. In some people who have had a...
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Could boosting a protein called Nox4D help heart recovery after a heart attack?King's College London | Professor Ajay Shah
BHF Professor Ajay Shah and his team at King’s College London want to find out if a protein called Nox4D could help the heart recover after a heart attack by making healthy heart muscle cells divide. Scientists have recently found that he...
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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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Reconstructing heart development to understand what causes congenital heart defectsUniversity College London | Professor Claudio Stern
The human heart begins as a simple tube, which loops and folds itself to form a four-chambered heart, containing many different types of cells. This process of embryonic development in the womb sometimes goes wrong, causing congenital heart...
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Regenerating coronary arteries after heart attackUniversity College London | Dr Catherine Roberts
Our vital organs require constant nourishment with oxygen and nutrients via their blood supply. The heart’s blood supply is delivered through the coronary arteries, and if one of these becomes blocked in coronary artery disease, it causes a...
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Studying how blood vessels in the womb adapt in pregnancy to supply the growing babySt George's, University of London | Professor Guy Whitley
The placenta acts as a baby’s lungs and stomach while in the womb, supplying food and oxygen from the mother’s blood. Early in pregnancy the blood vessels to the womb change in structure and increase in size to supply enough blood to the gr...
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3D imaging to detect abnormal heart muscle thickeningUniversity College London | Dr Charlotte Manisty
Supervised by Dr Charlotte Manisty, this Clinical Research Training Fellow is working out why some people develop excessively thick heart muscle in response to stress, putting them at risk of heart failure. When subjected to stresses, fo...
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Studying the growth and movement of blood vessel smooth-muscle cellsUniversity of Leicester | Dr Jonathon Willets
Dr John Willets and Professor John Challiss from the University of Leicester have been awarded a 2-year grant to study the behaviour of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC’s), which form an important part of the structure and function of the...
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Ryanodine receptor clusters and heart diseaseUniversity of Glasgow | Dr Niall MacQuaide
The release of calcium inside heart muscle cells is important for a normal heart beat, and abnormal calcium release can lead to heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmias). In this Intermediate Basic Science Fellowship, Dr Neil MacQuaide from t...
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Atherosclerosis - is RhoG an important regulator of platelet stickiness?University of Bristol | Professor Alastair Poole
Chest pain (angina) and heart attacks are caused by atherosclerosis, a condition that develops over years as fatty deposits called plaques build up in the artery walls. If a fatty plaque ruptures, a clot can form that blocks a vessel leadin...