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University of Leeds | Dr Vijayalakshmi Deivasikamani

The heart continuously pumps blood into the blood vessels, exerting a force on the walls of the blood vessels. It’s long been thought that this pressure is ‘sensed’ somehow by the specialist cells that line the vessels, and converted into s...

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