Sentences with phrase «carotid bodies»

Prabhakar and colleagues from the University of Chicago, the Illinois Institute of Technology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston), and Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), focused on the carotid bodies, a tiny cluster of cells embedded in the left and right carotid arteries, which pass through the neck.

Sensing small increases in CO2, the carotid body, a small cluster of cells in the neck, spurs big increases in breathing to remove excess CO2 and keep a person out of trouble.

A potential therapy for Parkinson's disease may lie in an unusual location: the carotid body, a small organ in the neck.

The normal job of the carotid body, nestled in the carotid artery, is to signal your brain to step up your breathing if your blood oxygen concentrations drop too low.

Symposia III: Mechanisms of Baro and Chemoreceptor Sensory Transduction: A Link to Sympatho - excitation in Disease Researchers will discuss how sensory neuronal signals are powerful regulators of the hypertensive state and the role of gaseous messengers in oxygen Sensing by the carotid body.

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Carotid - body cells will have to pass many more tests before researchers can even consider trying them on patients.

López - Barneo's main interest had been in how carotid - body cells sense falling blood oxygen levels.

And because carotid - body cells make lots of dopamine, they might be able to make up for the loss of the normal dopamine - producing neurons.

They focused on three different types of PVD: arterial disease in the lower extremities, called peripheral artery disease; carotid artery stenosis, which is blockage in the carotid arteries, the major blood vessels in the neck that supply blood to the brain, neck and face; and abdominal aortic aneurysm, an enlargement of the lower aorta, the major blood vessel that supplies blood to the body.

They showed that the longer the exposure to excess body fat (adiposity) in adulthood the greater the cardiovascular - related problems in later life, including increased thickness of the carotid artery walls, raised systolic blood pressure, and increased risk of diabetes.

GH therapy has been shown to decrease fat mass, increase lean body mass, increase bone mineral density, reduce both LDL and total cholesterol, reduce carotid - artery intimal media thickness, increase the number and function of endothelial progenitor cells (which repair the vascular wall), increase exercise tolerance, and dramatically improve overall quality of life.8 9 10

In studies of two of the most important arteries in the body, the coronary arteries that feed the heart and the carotid arteries that feed the brain, people eating the most whole grains appeared to have significantly slower narrowing of their arteries.

Association of body flexibility and carotid atherosclerosis in Japanese middle - aged men: a cross-sectional study