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Heart block in heart failure and athletes – investigating a possible new culpritUniversity of Manchester | Professor Mark R Boyett
‘Heart block’ is when the electrical impulse that signals the heart to beat fails to pass from the top to the bottom of the heart. As a result, the chambers at the bottom of the heart (the ventricles) fail to pump blood to the lungs, brain ...
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Studying cells in the aorta, towards a treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysmUniversity of Leeds | Dr Marc Bailey
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a condition in which the main artery in the body balloons and eventually ruptures. There may be no warning that an aorta is about to rupture. A ruptured AAA is often fatal and the only treatment for a ball...
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How does the MyBP-C protein cause cardiomyopathy?King's College London | Dr Thomas Kampourakis
BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow Dr Thomas Kampourakis is studying how faulty proteins lead to cardiomyopathies, diseases of the heart muscle that can cause heart failure. When the heart beats many elements work together 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...
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Shape changing platelet researchUniversity of Hull | Dr Simon Calaminus
Supervised by Dr Simon Calaminus, this PhD student is studying what controls platelets – small cells in the blood that clump together at sites of injury to form a plug to prevent further blood loss. Platelets are not normally activated ...
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Understanding how the giant protein titin stretches and relaxesKing's College London | Professor Sergi Garcia-Manyes
During the course of a heartbeat, the muscle expands as the chambers fill with blood and then relaxes as the force of the contraction pushes oxygenated blood around the body. The versatile, elastic function of the heart is so important to i...
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The Whitehall II study – can controlling heart disease risk factors result in healthy aging?University College London | Professor Eric Brunner
Since 1985, the Whitehall II study has followed the health and wellbeing of over 10,000 civil service workers. Part-funded by the BHF, it has shaped our understanding of the social causes of heart disease, including revealing that people in...
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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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The role of oestrogen and serotonin in pulmonary arterial hypertensionUniversity of Glasgow | Professor Margaret MacLean
More than 2,000 people in the UK have pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), where overactive cell growth in blood vessel walls reduces the space for blood flow in the lungs. Professor Margaret MacLean has been awarded a three-year grant to...
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How developing heart cells find their identityUniversity of East Anglia | Professor Andrea E Munsterberg
Professor Andrea Munsterberg is working out which molecules and signals play a role in heart formation in the developing embryo. Early on, immature cells that will form the heart, called progenitor ‘master’ cells, are instructed by signa...