The systemic circulation is a major portion of the circulatory system. The network of veins, arteries and blood vessels transports oxygenated blood from the heart, delivers oxygen and nutrients to ...

Your circulatory system contains three blood vessel types: arteries, veins, and capillaries. Arteries carry blood from the heart, unlike veins, which carry blood to the heart. According to the ...

A dysfunction in muscle blood vessels could be to blame for the weak muscles and weight loss that most cancer patients ...

To use fewer laboratory animals and research better treatments for snake bites, a team in the Netherlands has built a new 3D model of imitation blood vessels ... By comparison, there were roughly ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Narrator: Blood gets around our bodies through a system of blood vessels. To picture the blood vessels, imagine a ...

Breast cancer tumors can fuse with blood vessel cells, allowing clumps of cancer cells to break away from the main tumor and ride the bloodstream to other locations in the body, suggests ...