All diseases exist on a continuum, and the damage often begins early—sometimes as soon as a child is weaned off breast milk ...

When the blood-brain barrier is disrupted, as in TBI, both water and solutes cross the damaged capillary endothelium, causing brain edema. The increased ICP from this edema can lead to cell death ...

Brain aneurysm is a condition wherein there is a bulge or ballooning in a blood vessel in the brain. Salman Khan returned to ...

All 11 diabetic patients had diabetic retinal-capillary microangiopathy (microaneurysms or a decreased periocyte-endothelial-cell ratio), and 9 of the 11 demonstrated diabetic glomerular ...

Most textbooks credit nearby epithelial cells with the heavy lifting of organ building, because epithelial sheets act like ...

Pineapple and its bioactive ingredient, bromelain, are thought to have many health benefits. Learn what can happen when you ...

Erythritol may impair cellular functions essential to maintaining brain blood vessel health, according to researchers at the ...

Albumin also interferes with neutrophil adhesion to the capillary endothelium 14 and, thereby, reduces the effect of inflammation on the endothelium and adds to the maintenance of endothelial ...

Background—Pulmonary capillary endothelium-bound (PCEB) angiotensin-converting ectoenzyme (ACE) activity alteration is an early, sensitive, and quantifiable lung injury index in animal models.We ...

Researchers have created new tools to design and 3D print the incredibly complex vascular trees needed to carry blood throughout the heart.

For over a decade, scientists have been growing organoids—small clusters of cells that mimic a particular organ—to serve as miniature biological models. Organoids of the brain have been used to study ...

There are more than 100,000 people on organ transplant lists in the U.S., some of whom will wait years to receive one – and some may not survive the wait. Even with a good match, there is a chance ...