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Yoga: How true it reduces heart disease risk

By Guest PostMarch 5, 2013General, Healthatherosclerosis, ayurveda practitioners, blockage, blood circulation, blood clot, bow pose, breathing technique, cad, cat pose, cholesterol, cobra pose, coronary artery disease, development of yoga, diabetes, factors, fatty streaks, heart beats, heart disease risk, kapalabhati, ldl cholesterol, left auricle, menstrual cycle, metabolic rates, mountain pose, muscles, reduce, relieving stress, sedentary lifestyles, stress, thea miller, tobacco, warrior pose, yoga, yoga lifestyles

The most common form of heart disease affecting humans is the Coronary Artery Disease. The disease portrays acute build-up of cholesterol in the layers of the arteries constituting the heart. The blockage induces a phenomenal slowed down blood circulation. The left auricle functions in generating the signals dubbed as heart beats. As a result of the incrementing inadvertent blockage the muscles keep panting due to the lack of supply of blood to the muscles. Since the blood supply to the muscles are snapped to an instance, the muscles are forced to reciprocate to the bodily functions. The plaques present in the arterial walls of all humans suffice huge pressure in the process which may lead to weakening and thereby a crack in the arterial wall. Again this may concur with unforeseen blood clot in the region. This compromising blood clot, topped with blockage sustaining in the arteries lead to the preponderances of heart attacks. (more…)

Blood Discovery

By Guest PostMay 3, 2012Sciencea, arteries, blood clot, England, heart disease, intravital microscope, jam a protein, jonathan m gibbins, junctional adhesion molecule, lawrence brass, local cardiologist, meghna naik, plaque lines, platelets, protein in blood, stroke, ulhas naik, university of delaware, university of reading, world health organization

UD researchers discover that JAM-A protein keeps blood clots in check

Cut your toe, and platelets — those disc-shaped cells circulating in your blood — rush to the scene, clumping together to plug the leak.

But when an unwanted clot forms in an artery, and an overaccumulation of platelets blocks blood flow, a heart attack or stroke occurs, too often with fatal results.

Heart disease and stroke rank as humankind’s top killers, according to the World Health Organization. Ulhas Naik, director of the Delaware Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Delaware, hopes to help change that grim statistic for the better. (more…)

New Device Removes Stroke-Causing Blood Clots Better Than Standard Treatment

By Guest PostFebruary 13, 2012Health, Scienceblood clot, catheter tube, covidien, elad levy, Europe, experimental device, flow restoration device, jeffrey l saver, merci retriever, raul nogueira, reza jahan, solitaire, stroke patient, swift, thrombectomy, tissue plasminogen activator, tudor g jovin, ucla stroke center, united states

An experimental device for removing blood clots in stroke patients dramatically outperformed the standard mechanical treatment, according to research presented by UCLA Stroke Center director Dr. Jeffrey L. Saver at the American Stroke Association’s 2012 international conference in New Orleans on Feb. 3.

The SOLITAIRE Flow Restoration Device is among an entirely new generation of devices designed to remove blood clots from blocked brain arteries in patients experiencing stroke. It has a self-expanding, stent-like design and, once inserted into a clot using a thin catheter tube, it compresses and traps the clot. The clot is then removed by withdrawing the device, thus reopening the blocked blood vessel. (more…)

Body Rebuilding: Scientists Regenerate Muscle in Mice

By Guest PostDecember 10, 2011Sciencebiopolymer microthreads, blood clot, cellthera, clinical therapy, cloning, fibrin microthreads, george pins, human muscle cells, implanted cells, leg muscle, mammalian skeletal muscles, mouse, muscle repair, muscle trauma, raymond page, stem cell, threads, tissue restoration, worcester polytechnic institute, wound, wpi

*New Study Uses Reprogrammed Human Cells and Bioengineered Microthreads*

A team of scientists from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and CellThera, a private company located in WPI’s Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center, have regenerated functional muscle tissue in mice, opening the door for a new clinical therapy to treat people who suffer major muscle trauma.

The team used a novel protocol to coax mature human muscle cells into a stem cell-like state and grew those reprogrammed cells on biopolymer microthreads. The threads were placed in a wound created by surgically removing a large section of leg muscle from a mouse. Over time, the threads and cells restored near-normal function to the muscle, as reported in the paper “Restoration of Skeletal Muscle Defects with Adult Human Cells Delivered on Fibrin Microthreads”, published in the current issue of the journal Tissue Engineering. Surprisingly, the microthreads, which were used simply as a scaffold to support the reprogrammed human cells, actually seemed to accelerate the regeneration process by recruiting progenitor mouse muscle cells, suggesting that they alone could become a therapeutic tool for treating major muscle trauma. (more…)

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Yoga: How true it reduces heart disease risk

Blood Discovery

New Device Removes Stroke-Causing Blood Clots Better Than Standard Treatment

Body Rebuilding: Scientists Regenerate Muscle in Mice