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Studying how exosomes help blood vessels to self-repairKing's College London | Professor Catherine Shanahan
Dr Alexander Kapustin and his team at King’s College London are exploring how to boost the body’s natural ability to heal itself. Blood vessels have an in-built repair mechanism, in which cells called vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in...
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Understanding how calcium channels keep the heartbeat in syncUniversity of Dundee | Professor Timothy Hales
Dr William Fuller and his colleagues at the University of Dundee are studying calcium channels, which are tiny pores on the surface of heart muscle cells. They are essential for the heart to contract in response to electrical stimulation du...
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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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What dictates where plaques form in the blood vessels?University of Oxford | Dr Ellie Tzima
Dr Ellie Tzima and colleagues at the University of Oxford are working out how plaques form in atherosclerosis - an inflammatory disease where fatty plaques gradually build up on the inner surface of blood vessels. Over time, these plaques c...
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Can Nogo-B protect blood vessels in diabetic kidney disease?King's College London | Professor Luigi Gnudi
Professor Luigi Gnudi and his team at King’s College London are studying a protein called Nogo-B to find out if it could protect blood vessels during diabetic kidney disease. In diabetes, small blood vessels in the kidney become damaged, ...
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Looking for a new way to lower cholesterolUniversity of Sheffield | Professor Endre Kiss Toth
Dr Endre Kiss Toth and his team at the University of Sheffield are looking for new ways to lower cholesterol levels in the blood to prevent arteries becoming blocked with fatty plaques, or atherosclerosis. Scientists have found that a prot...
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Pak1 and abnormal heart rhythmsUniversity of Oxford | Professor Ming Lei
Dr Ming Lei and his colleagues at the University of Oxford are working out whether an enzyme called Pak1 could be controlled to treat abnormal heart rhythms, also known as arrhythmias. When arrhythmias affect the ventricles, the lower pum...
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How nerve and heart cells interact to cause abnormal heart rhythmsUniversity of Leicester | Professor G Andre Ng
Professor G Andre Ng at the University of Leicester is studying how the nervous system is involved in triggering abnormal heart rhythms, called ventricular fibrillation, which can lead to sudden cardiac death (SCD). Heart disease can incr...
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How does zinc deficiency cause bleeding?University of Hull | Dr Simon Calaminus
Hull researchers are uncovering the role of zinc in platelets and bleeding. Zinc plays an important role in the body. Zinc deficiency exists in many health problems, and is linked to excess bleeding. It is not yet known exactly how a lac...