A research team at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland, has made significant progress in understanding how ...

All vessels feature varying lumen size. The lumen is the hollow opening or the space inside the blood vessel. Artery Vein Capillary Function Carry blood away from the heart (usually oxygenated ...

Damage to blood vessels that leaves them blocked or otherwise impeded can leave no option other than surgical replacement. Traditionally, this can involve vessels from a donor or harvested from ...

They show in Nature Communications that it is possible to track how blood vessels in the brains of mice change over long periods of time. The results begin to give biomedical researchers a tool to ...

Globally, it causes about 10 million deaths per year. Atherosclerosis is characterized by the build-up of plaque inside your blood vessels. It can lead to stenosis, which is a narrowing of your ...

This "tsunami in the body" is one way a blast can injure blood vessels that supply oxygen and nutrients to structures deep in the brain, says Dr. Ibolja Cernak, an expert on blast injuries at ...

especially at the small size that would likely circulate in blood vessels (7 microns), is very hard,” Prof. Galloway told Medical News Today. “This paper is good news because it describes a ...

Using advanced imaging techniques, they observed that microplastics obstruct cerebral blood vessels by causing individual immune cells to become trapped in capillaries. The findings revealed a ...

The study, published Feb. 25 in Nature Communications, challenges the conventional belief that a type of fat called ceramides accumulates in blood vessels causing inflammation and health risks.