Los Angeles, CA - Calcifying vascular cells (CVC) in artery walls have a multilineage potential, similar to mesenchymal stem cells, a group from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has ...
It remains unclear whether measures of magnetic resonance imaging plaque characteristics are associated with cardiovascular disease events independent of plaque burden at the population level.
A fusiform aneurysm causes the artery to bulge or balloon on all sides. This type is less common than a saccular aneurysm, which causes a bulge on one side of the artery. An aneurysm is a weakness in ...
LA JOLLA, CA—An artery is not like a nose. Or is it? Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have discovered that immune cells in arteries can "sniff" out their surroundings and cause ...