Sentences with phrase «well their blood vessels»

Each individual had tests to see how well their blood vessels accommodated an increased blood flow, a healthy blood vessel function test, or vascular function test.

Research linked drinking a cup of beet juice a day to better blood vessel functioning and an improvement in arterial stiffness — perhaps thanks to nitrates, which, like blueberries, can trigger blood vessel dilation.

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It's also super healthy as it's rich in disease - fighting flavonoids, as well as being full of magnesium, which works to relax blood vessels to improve blood flow and nutrient delivery.

They are a good source of potassium, which may decrease the growth and development of blood vessel plaques and is also good for lowering high blood pressure.

It is a good source of magnesium (helps metabolism, cardiovascular, and blood vessel function, which is helpful for migraine headaches).

Quinoa is also a good source for iron to keep the blood oxygenated and B vitamins to balance mood and protect blood vessels.

The higher concentration of cacao means the more flavonoids and antioxidants and this is good because it helps to strengthen blood vessels, lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure.

Drinking cacao has been shown to reduce blood pressure, improve blood vessel health, lower bad cholesterol and raise good cholesterol.

(not to ruin a good story, but the medulla oblongata helps regulate breathing, heart and blood vessel function, digestion, sneezing, and swallowing.

Studies have shown that regular consumption of cocoa may reduce heart disease risk, help raise good cholesterol, and possibly reverse blood vessel damage in people with diabetes.

The best position is to lie on your left side, since this takes pressure off the vena cava, a blood vessel that helps deliver oxygen to your baby.

Fainting episodes and dizziness during pregnancy are caused by the dilating of blood vessels as well as lower blood pressure and low blood sugar.

It has been noted that an injury to a person's blood vessels in their brain may actually dramatically alter the progression as well as onset of Alzheimer's disease.

The creation of the brain, spinal cord, heart, and blood vessels is already well under way.

Eventually, the goal is to understand the mechanisms by which liposomes leave blood vessels and are picked up by skin cells, allowing researchers to design better liposomes without skin toxicity.

Vunjak - Novakovic says the researchers are now determining how best to grow blood vessels in bone grafts that can keep them alive.

The trophoblasts along with blood vessel cells were added to small dextran beads that were then spun around in a container filled with cell culture fluid, creating shear stress and rotational forces to better mimic the environment at the maternal - fetal interface than static cell - culture systems.

In lab dishes, the blast cells formed tissues that resembled blood - forming stem cells as well as blood vessels, the group found.

So VEGF levels appear to provide a good way of measuring whether a patient will be able to grow these new blood vessels, says Levy, and his group is hoping to develop a VEGF blood test that will help cardiologists know how best to treat their patients.

While just how vitamin D is good for our arteries isn't completely understood, it appears to impact blood vessel health in many ways.

In the U.S., one in every four deaths is a result of heart disease, which includes a range of conditions from arrhythmias, or abnormal heart rhythms, to defects, as well as blood vessel diseases, more commonly known as cardiovascular diseases.

genes, the team has shown that B. theta helps guide the normal development and functioning of the intestines — including the growth of blood vessels, the proper turnover of epithelial cells, and the marshaling of components of the immune system needed to keep less well behaved bacteria at bay.

Scientists report today that artificial blood vessels made using a person's own skin cells work well in patients receiving kidney dialysis.

Studies suggest this more specialized cell type may prompt better blood - vessel formation.

The gene MAP2K1 has previously been linked to some types of cancerous growths as well as to conditions that lead to abnormal blood vessel formation in the head, face or neck.

«We need more research to better understand how to help people who have had adversity in childhood prevent or delay the development of heart and blood vessel diseases.»

One explanation for that, says Iacobuzio - Donahue, is that «Distant metastases have to travel long distances along the «highways» of the blood vessels, land in a good spot and colonize, while local metastases just pinch off the primary tumor and go a short distance on «familiar side roads,» so they are usually more similar to the primary tumor.»

The tissue, called the stroma, includes fat cells, or adipocytes, that provide padding; fibroblasts, which make the framework for tissue; pericytes in blood vessels, which are contractile cells that help regulate blood pressure; as well as myoepithelial cells comprising the outer layer of the ductal system through which milk flows.

As to how the brain's lymphatic vessels managed to escape notice all this time, Kipnis described them as «very well hidden» and noted that they follow a major blood vessel down into the sinuses, an area difficult to image.

As well as weakening the tumour, which makes it less able to grow and spread to other parts of the body, the drug made blood vessels become more leaky, enabling more chemotherapy drugs to spill into the tumour.

Using a technology called VAST, which can automatically label individual neurons, glia, and blood vessels different colors, as well as smaller structures such as dendrites and mitochondria, the researchers analyzed the contents of three cylindrical chunks of brain tissue, each no bigger than grains of salt.

Perimenopausal women had higher FMD, and their blood vessels dilated faster — indicating better endothelial function — compared with postmenopausal women, when both aerobic fitness groups were combined.

«Menopausal status may better predict blood vessel health in women than fitness level.»

They had more blood vessels at the site of injury, and their heart function was better.

The PROMISE trial was conducted at 193 centers across North America to determine whether a care strategy starting with coronary CTA, which reveals the structure of blood vessels supplying the heart, or a strategy starting with functional testing, measures such as stress testing or echocardiography that reflect how well the heart muscle is working, provided better guidance for clinical decisions regarding patients with chest pain.

By the early 20th century clinicians turned their attention to the role of the blood vessels, inspired in part by observations of strong pulsing of the temporal arteries in migraine patients, as well as patients» descriptions of throbbing pain and the relief they got from compression of the carotid arteries.

Researchers studied healthy peri - and postmenopausal women who were regularly active and highly fit as well as women who did not exercise regularly and had relatively low levels of aerobic fitness to determine whether fitness and / or menopause affect blood vessel function.

The benefits of treating serious strokes with clot removal were shown in 2015, when five separate studies analyzing a total of 1,287 patients showed that severe stroke patients — usually with clots involving the largest blood vessels in the brain — who received both the clot - snatching procedure and the medicine did significantly better than those who got medicine alone.

Photoacoustic imaging picks out blood vessels better, but it can't see flow in a continuous stream.

The open structure also allows room for the egg cells to mature and ovulate, as well as blood vessels to form within the implant enabling the hormones to circulate within the mouse bloodstream and trigger lactation after giving birth.

Among other effects, immune cells disrupt the function of the endothelial layer, the lining of the blood vessels, counteracting «all the good things that the endothelial cells produce,» says physiologist Brett Mitchell of Texas A&M College of Medicine in College Station.

The structure of the kidneys (red), bones, and blood vessels — all from a CT scan — are clearly visible as well.

As well as being agonising, the drug scars veins and can cause blood vessels to collapse.

The research conducted by the University of Sheffield, published today in the Journal of Neurourology and Urodynamics, provides evidence which supports the use of a softer and more elastic material better suited for use in the pelvic floor and one that releases oestrogen into the surrounding pelvic tissue to form new blood vessels and ultimately speed up the healing process.

After six weeks, researchers assessed how well the lining of blood vessels, or the endothelium, functioned, by measuring how much subjects» arteries dilated with increased blood flow.

Abrikosov didn't mention the disease in his autopsy, yet the blood - vessel damage he cited, as well as the paralysis and other incapacities acknowledged in official records, are typical of syphilis.

«We found that the well - known Notch protein is responsible for keeping blood vessels from becoming leaky, and does so through a secondary signaling pathway that operates in a completely different manner than its known transcription - based pathway,» says Chris Chen, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Faculty member of the Wyss Institute and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, who is the corresponding author of the paper.

Currently available drugs can modestly improve symptoms and exercise capacity (at best), but can not repair the blood vessel damage to the lungs or cure the disease.

«Secret alter ego of well - known protein fights leaky blood vessels: Surprise discovery of a new pathway governed by Notch signaling protein opens door for better drug development.»

«We saw that fewer patients in the IMRT group developed skin telangiectasia (dilated blood vessels near the surface of the skin), and the overall cosmetic effect in the breast was better,» she said.