The venous system maintains the health of our brains by removing deoxygenated blood and other waste products, but its complexity and variability have made scientific study difficult. Now, a UC ...

Femoral popliteal bypass. The surgeon reaches the femoral artery through a large cut (incision) in the upper leg. A vein taken from another area in your leg is attached above and below the blockage.

Be sure to read the nutrition facts label on packaged foods ... When your body makes too much cholesterol, it can get stuck in the artery walls and cause blockages that may lead to heart attacks and ...

Even if your cholesterol and blood pressure levels are only mildly elevated, when they are both present in your body, they can interact with each other to more quickly damage your blood vessels ...

Blood vessels are like big-city highways; full of curves, branches, merges, and congestion. Yet for years, lab models ...

In biomedical research, so-called organs-on-a-chip, also referred to as microphysiological systems, are becoming increasingly ...

New studies stemming from the Armamentarium consortium outline findings that advance tools based on Adeno-associated virus ...

The anatomy and terminology of the cerebral and sinus veins. Reproduced with permission from Clot Connect. 1 The obstruction of the blood flow from a clot in veins in the head leads to a back up of ...

The equation shows that the thermal response of the aqueous humor in the anterior chamber of the human eye is inversely ...

In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that systemic administration of FTS will suppress intimal thickening in the rat carotid injury model. Methods and Results ... performed in the left ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

† Department of Chemistry and International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States § ‡ Translational Research Institute and § Department of ...