Vasodilation makes blood vessels wider to help increase blood flow and lower blood pressure. If you have high blood pressure, you may need vasodilator medications to open up your blood vessels. Eating ...

The circulatory system consists of one heart, five liters of blood, and approximately 96,000 kilometers of blood vessels, responsible for transporting nutrients and waste throughout the body. Water ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PercAssist, Inc., a medical device company developing innovative technology for extravascular / extracardiac Mechanical Circulatory Support to provide hemodynamic ...

Blood–brain barrier (BBB) prevents neurotoxins from entering central nervous system. We aimed to establish and characterize an in vitro triple co-culture BBB model consisting of brain endothelial ...

The manuscript by Yang and coworkers presents valuable evidence that an in vitro brain blood barrier composed of endothelial cells, astrocytes, and neuroblastoma cells of human origin, would resemble ...

What keeps some immune systems youthful and effective in warding off age-related diseases? In a new paper published in Cellular & Molecular Immunology, USC Stem Cell scientist Rong Lu and her ...

Patients with throat problems were less able to regulate their blood pressure in a new study. The study shows reduced baroreflex sensitivity in patients with throat symptoms. Patients with throat ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Delta Development Team, Inc. is now the first entity to establish one complete prehospital blood management system solution. They are at the forefront of revolutionizing how we manage ...

Wound healing of the central nervous system (CNS) is characterized by the classical phases of ‘hemostasis’, ‘inflammation’, ‘proliferation’, and ‘remodeling’. Uncontrolled wound healing results in ...

Every day, your heart pumps about 10 pints of blood 60,000 miles around your body through your circulatory system. That system is made up of blood vessels, the tubes that carry blood throughout your ...