It happens in an instant: a sudden rush of heat spreading across your cheeks, sometimes even your neck or chest. Whether it’s ...

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.

This review focuses on the association between vascular calcification and arterial stiffness, highlighting the important genetic factors, systemic and local microenvironmental signals, and underlying ...

A new study from the University of Otago has found that the health of our eyes might provide early warning signs of dementia. Researchers discovered that the tiny blood vessels at the back of the ...

We examined the effects of indapamide, a thiazide-like diuretic, on cerebral arterioles in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). The structure and mechanics of cerebral arterioles were examined in u ...

The reduction of the arterioles wall thickness and wall-lumen ratio resulting from the EPA-L treatment of the MCT-induced PAH rats indicated that EPA-L attenuated the proliferation of intimal smooth ...

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 ...