News articles tagged with 'vascular' (Page 2)
UCSD scientists find gas pedal - and brake - for uncontrolled cell growth
— 2 Aug 2010 09:28 | HealthResearchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a new way to regulate the uncontrolled growth of blood vessels, a major problem in a broad…
Use of flexible robotics reduces trauma in vascular surgery
— 19 Jul 2010 14:39 | HealthResearch conducted by surgeons from the Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Centre shows that using robotics reduces blood vessel trauma during minimally invasive procedures to repair…
Researchers find key to getting oestrogen's benefits without cancer risk
— 24 Jun 2010 11:37 | HealthResearchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre have pinpointed a set of biological mechanisms through which oestrogen confers its beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system, independent…
Defective signalling pathway leads to vascular malformations in the brain
— 23 Jun 2010 11:42 | HealthBenign vascular malformations known as cavernomas can occur in many tissues of the body. These abnormalities are characterised by enlarged, instable and unstructured blood vessels.…
The experience of arterial reconstruction in adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation
— 18 Jun 2010 12:38 | HealthHepatic artery thrombosis (HAT), which is the most common vascular complication after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), can result in graft loss and devastating consequences.…
Epigenetic gene silencing may hold key to fatal lung vascular disease
— 8 Jun 2010 12:18 | HealthA rare but fatal disease of blood vessels in the lung may be caused in part by aberrant silencing of genes rather than genetic mutation, new research reports…
Folic acid found to improve vascular function in amenorrheic runners
— 11 May 2010 06:54 | HealthA study led by sports medicine researcher Anne Hoch, D.O. at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee has found that oral folic acid may provide a safe and inexpensive treatment…
'Rotten eggs' gas, fat and diabetes
— 28 Apr 2010 11:49 | HealthResearchers from the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter have for the first time identified a link between blood levels of the gas hydrogen sulphide (a gas more commonly associated with…
Magnetic fields drive drug-loaded nanoparticles to reduce blood vessel blockages in an animal study
— 20 Apr 2010 11:05 | HealthScientists and engineers have used uniform magnetic fields to drive iron-bearing nanoparticles to metal stents in injured blood vessels, where the particles deliver a drug payload that…
Researchers uncover novel genetic pathway responsible for triggering vascular growth
— 5 Apr 2010 13:39 | HealthMost solid cancers can't grow beyond a limited size without an adequate blood supply and supporting vascular network. Because of this, cancer researchers have sought to understand how…