Right heart failure can cause excess fluid to build up in the liver’s blood vessels. Treatments usually aim to reduce fluid buildup and improve heart function in this serious heart failure side ...

Babies move up until birth, but fetal movement definitely changes in the third trimester as your baby starts running out of room to bounce around. A lot of the movement you feel at this stage is ...

The choroid plexus consists of a network of cells and blood vessels found in various fluid-filled spaces in the brain, called ventricles. A thin layer of cells covers each of those vessels.

(The word "vaso" means vessel, and "spasm" is a sudden, involuntary muscle squeeze.) This forceful contraction narrows the artery and sharply reduces blood flow. A vasospasm in the brain or the ...

Conclusions Constitutive expression of low levels of BMP-9 stabilises hepatocyte function in the healthy liver. Upon HSC activation ... antiproliferative and stabilising on mature (healthy) vessels ...

Liver diseases are any diseases that affect the functioning of the liver. Liver diseases can be inherited (such as Wilson disease and alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency) or acquired (for example ...