Sentences with phrase «blood microvessel»

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These published studies showed that crude kuzu root preparations or their extracted flavonoids, given as injections or taken orally, Researchers also report that flavonoids lower cholesterol levels, reduce the risk of forming blood clots, protect the heart against cardiovascular disease, and protect the brain by dilating cerebral microvessels to increase blood flow.

While arteries are the main supply routes into the brain, blood ultimately delivers its payload of oxygen to its final destination via a vast web of smaller capillaries — or microvessels — which permeate brain tissue.

The thin walls of the microvessels mean that the oxygen levels in adjacent brain tissue are mirrored within the capillaries, which can signal to red blood cells to spring into action.

Perivascular cells, including pericytes in the smallest blood vessels (e.g., microvessels) and ARCs around larger ones, express mesenchymal stem cell markers and bear a multi-differentiation fate potential (differentiate into osteoblasts, chondrocytes, adipocytes, smooth muscle cells and myocytes) similar to that documented for MSCs in vitro.

The growth of new blood vessels tends to occur quite early for most cancers; even small tumors found via mammogram frequently have a high microvessel count (MVC).

The researchers suggest it might be that the same things that damage blood vessels in the heart also damage microvessels elsewhere in the body.

It enhances the quality of the skin on the scalp and improves blood flow in microvessels.