All blood vessels are specifically structured to perform ... Allows diffusion of gases and nutrients from blood into the body cells Wall Thick, muscular Thinner Very thin, one cell thick Lumen ...

Even people familiar with meningococcal disease are astonished at the rapidity with which this rare though deadly illness can ravage the body. Within hours, patients can go from perfectly healthy ...

The same mechanisms involved in COVID-related cardiovascular events are responsible for COVID-related myocarditis.

Bulging blood vessels can appear on the forehead ... The skin becomes thinner as the body ages, which can make veins appear more pronounced or more significant than they are.

A team of KIT researchers has now identified a new cell type in blood vessels responsible for vascular growth. This discovery ...

“These cells have an important job, to help grow blood vessels when the body calls for it,” Dr. Sanuri Liyange, a part of the ...

Doctors can safely cut and transplant skin flaps containing blood vessels from a different area of the body, decreasing the burden on patients. The technology can also visualize transparent ...

New research shows that women who hit menopause later in life have healthier blood vessels and mitochondria and a different composition of metabolites in their blood than those who stop menstruating ...

Inside you, there is an amazing network of blood vessels, the tubes that carry blood all around your body. Every part of the body needs oxygen, food and water. The blood vessels are a bit like ...

But no one was looking at the vasculature," the blood vessels that carry the virus throughout the body and in and out of the heart. From her lab in New York City, Giannarelli had front-row seats ...