Sentences with phrase «small arteries»

Then he found the material worked on small arteries, too.
Also, large dogs tend to tolerate the disease better than small dogs since small dogs have smaller artery openings in the heart.
alphaV integrins are necessary for eutrophic inward remodeling of small arteries in hypertension.
WISE researchers discovered that two - thirds of the study participants with chest pain had «clear» angiograms, but half of those women had a condition called coronary microvascular sydrome, in which plaque coats small arteries in the heart rather than building to clumps in larger vessels.
Smaller emboli may travel into smaller arteries and affect arterial blood flow to only one limb, or to other sites such as the brain, lungs, or kidneys.
Coronary microvascular dysfunction causes plaque to spread evenly throughout the walls of small arteries instead of causing obvious blockage in the main arteries.
Sodium can also cause small arteries to constrict, producing greater resistance to blood flow.
Several smaller arteries might be dilated, tortuous, or pruned.
«Our research has identified a gene affecting another type of ischemic stroke, due to small vessel disease, and also suggests some genes may be associated with both ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke and may act through a novel pathway affecting pericytes, a type of cell in the wall of small arteries and capillaries.
Small arteries from 42 essential hypertensive patients (HT) and 41 normotensive individuals (NT) were dissected after subcutaneous biopsy.
In some cases, women who have bypass surgery or angioplasty for typical CAD continue to experience symptoms because they also suffer from blockage in their small arteries, says Dr. Bairey Merz.
Any thickening or stiffening of a large or small artery will cause more pressure against the walls of that artery.
This is a condition in which blood circulation is restricted by a narrowing of the small arteries, causing coldness and numbness in the hands and feet.
Pulmonary arterial pathology in cats and ferrets is similar to that in dogs, although the small arteries develop more severe muscular hypertrophy.
The immature worms» arrival into the small arteries in the lungs initiates a severe inflammatory response that damages not only the arteries, but also the bronchioles (small airways) and alveoli (air sacs where gas exchange in the lungs takes place).
Once the medicine is given the worms begin to die, meaning they break into small pieces which can occlude a pulmonary vessel or become lodged in the small arteries of the body.
The L5 larva will penetrate the small arteries in the outer parts of the lungs on their way to the heart.
This pressure is determined by how the heart pumps, the resistance to blood flow in the small arteries, the elasticity of the walls of the main arteries, how much blood is present and the blood viscosity or thickness.
It occurs when the smaller arteries (usually in the fingers and toes) constrict, decreasing the blood supply to these areas.
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