This short film offers a look at respiration and a tour around the circulatory system and digestive system in the human body, through blood vessels and into mitochondria.

Hypertension is the most common chronic disease in the world, yet the precise cause of elevated blood pressure often cannot be determined. Animal models have been useful for unraveling the ...

These capillaries can thereby communicate upstream electrically to hyperpolarize and relax contractile pericytes on capillaries and on small arterioles and to relax smooth muscle cells surrounding ...