Vascular in Biological News

Fujitsu PalmSecure Certified Under International Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2

... today announced that the Fujitsu PalmSecure vascular biometric authentication technology has been ... Assurance Level 2. PalmSecure is the first vascular authentication solution to receive this ... users' palm vein patterns. This advanced, vascular pattern recognition technology provides a highly ...

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology increases impact, international reach

... FAIRFAX, Va.The Journal of vascular and Interventional Radiology 's quality and ... outside North America. "The Journal of vascular and Interventional Radiology 's achievements ... Albert A. Nemcek Jr., M.D., FSIR. "The Journal of vascular and Interventional Radiology continues to attract ...

Is vitamin D deficiency linked to Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia?

... for the development of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Based on an increasing number of ... cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementia. There are two primary ways that people ... the risk of diseases linked to dementia such as vascular and metabolic diseases, as well as an ...

Genetic factors may predict depression in heart disease patients

... Genetics , the genes are related to the vascular system, suggesting that vascular health which includes the body's network of ... involving endothelial dysfunction a hallmark for vascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis and platelet ...

Interventional radiology: From sidelines to mainstream for patients

... in support of clinical patient management by vascular and interventional radiologists as an important ... ACR, which "opposes any attempt to prohibit vascular and interventional radiologists from being ... as radiologists," affirmed the importance of vascular and interventional radiologists "establishing ...

New evidence of how high glucose damages blood vessels could lead to new treatments

... by a glucose-derived molecule is a player in vascular problems associated with hypertension, stroke and ... Dr. Tostes says. "If we know how this changes vascular function, we can understand some of the ... animals to study the impact on blood pressure and vascular function. ...

Heart protein regulates blood vessel maintenance

... the genes necessary for the quiescence of vascular smooth muscle cells (vSMCs), which line blood vessels. vascular smooth muscle cells undergo a process in diseases ... state of vSMCs, which is essential in regulating vascular motor function," says Hata. ...

Single gene defect can cause stroke, other artery diseases

... or mutation in this gene, we can do screening for vascular diseases, and if diagnosed with disease, they can ... the door to a new way of thinking about the vascular system, Milewicz said. "We need to look at the ... mutations. They were phenotyped for premature vascular diseases, defined as an age of onset less than 55 ...

Risk of vibration-induced vascular injuries linked to vibration frequency differences

... mechanisms underlying the development of vascular dysfunction. Her presentation is part of the ... risk of developing vibration-induced peripheral vascular dysfunction. Of the 1.1 to 1.5 million U.S. ... with more immediate changes in the peripheral vascular system, such as those seen in workers with ...

Male impotence drugs may deserve a second look in women

... provides an early, or at least visible, clue of vascular disease. vascular problems, that can result from diabetes, ... not seem to respond is because they did not have vascular problems that could have been circumvented by a ...

UC Davis bench-to-bedside research: Promising treatment in clinical trials

... and hypertension are often associated with vascular inflammation as is atherosclerosis," Weiss said. ... said many diseases tend to occur together in vascular biology. "So, a compound that addresses heart ... are few good drugs for end organ failure and vascular ...

Simple test helps predict heart attack risk

... disease, stroke, diabetes or atherosclerotic vascular diseasealong with available data on standard ... an interventional radiologist and director of the vascular Disease Research Center at Rhode Island Hospital ... disease, stroke, diabetes or atherosclerotic vascular disease," said Murphy. "There is also a good ...

For old or young dialysis patients, AV fistulas remain pure gold

... and their doctors is keeping an individual's vascular access graft open for dialysis. AV fistulas ... said Forauer. Before dialysis can begin, a vascular access, which is the site on a patient's body ... of blood cleansed during dialysis treatments, the vascular accesssuch as an AV fistulaallows continuous high ...

Decreasing insulin resistance prevents obesity-related cardiovascular damage

... up your circulation," says Dr. David Stepp, vascular biologist at the MCG vascular Biology Center and co-director of MCG's Diabetes ... blood vessel disease," says Dr. David Fulton, vascular biologist at ...

Researchers describe protease inhibitor that may aid in diabetic retinopathy treatment

... Feener, Ph.D., an Investigator in the Section on vascular Cell Biology at the Joslin Diabetes Center and ... decreasing hypertension-induced increased retinal vascular permeability in rodents, by as much as 70%. Increased retinal vascular permeability is a characteristic finding in ...

Hypertension develops early, silently, in African-American men

... "Racial differences in central blood pressure and vascular function in young men" was carried out by Kevin ... were young and equally healthy and fit. The vascular damage they looked for included stiffening and ... and glucose levels. The researchers measured vascular function in a variety of ways, including: ...

Protein identified that plays role in blood flow

... role in the control of tissue blood flow and vascular resistance. This new knowledge brings researchers one step closer to understanding vascular diseases, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and other vascular problems. "This study provides new insights ...

At risk for peripheral arterial disease? Simple quiz provides key so you can circulate better

... susceptible to PAD because diabetes affects every vascular bed in the body and increases the risk for ... a red flag for several life-threatening vascular diseases, such as heart attack (the number one ... or high blood pressure Have a family history of vascular disease, such as PAD, aneurysm, heart attack or ...

Gene is likely cause of stroke-inducing vascular malformations

... veins during embryonic development is linked to a vascular disorder in the brain that causes stroke. The ... BAVM, for brain arteriovenous malformation, is a vascular disorder causing arteries and veins to be ... and director of the Laboratory for Accelerated vascular Research and Mildred V. Strouss Endowed Chair ...

Normalizing tumor vessels to improve cancer therapy

... of the late Judah Folkman, MD, founder of the vascular Biology program at Children's Hospital Boston. Now, vascular Biology researchers have discovered an ... senior author and interim co-director of the vascular Biology program. The idea of a therapy aimed ...

Researchers link cocoa flavanols to improved brain blood flow

... cocoa flavanol consumption to blood flow and vascular health improvements throughout the body," said ... the collective research demonstrates that the vascular effects of cocoa flavanols are independent of ... for cocoa flavanol-based interventions for vascular complications associated with cognitive ...

Stent grafts: a better way to treat blunt trauma injuries

... injury," said Eric K. Hoffer, the director of vascular and interventional radiology at Dartmouth Medical ... for this study, published in the Journal of vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR), the ... teams with cardiothoracic surgeons and vascular surgeons, pioneered the application of the ...

JDRF announces 2008 Scholar Award recipients

... project: "Set 7: a novel target for diabetic vascular complications." He plans to study the metabolic ... between long-term high glucose and diabetic vascular complications through a new mechanism that ... Columbia University Medical Center Project: vascular Injury in Type 1 Diabetes A Failure of Repair ...

OSU study shows exposure to bad air raises blood pressure

... said Sanjay Rajagopalan, section director of vascular medicine at Ohio State's Medical Center and ... issue of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and vascular Biology , a journal published by the American ... Sun, first author of the study, will analyze vascular function in humans before and after the upcoming ...

Hypertension treatment effective in reversing vascular damage

... and director of the Hypertension and vascular Research Center at Wake Forest University Baptist ... receptor blockers in preventing or reversing vascular damage at many stages during this disease process." The one-year study, titled vascular Improvement with Olmesartan medoxomil Study ...

Natural compounds in cocoa tied to blood flow improvements for adults with type 2 diabetes

... 20 million Americans living with diabetes, these vascular impairments can eventually lead to heart disease ... with the disease often continue to experience vascular dysfunction. This has led scientists on a search ... consumption of a flavanol-rich cocoa drink on vascular function in diabetic adults was investigated. In ...

High cholesterol in your 40s increases risk of Alzheimer's disease

... a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and 162 had vascular dementia. The study found people with total ... high mid-life cholesterol and the risk of vascular dementia were difficult to formulate as there are several types of vascular dementia that may have slightly different risk ...

Human vascular system in mice

... has developed a method to create a complex human vascular system in mice, which stays functional even after ... and may deliver answers to various questions of vascular biology research. Scientists can genetically ... in order to investigate the formation of vascular networks. In addition, it is possible to test the ...

Diabetes makes it hard for blood vessels to relax

... as a supplemental therapy for diabetics with vascular problems. Their findings also help explain why ... following a heart attack didnt improve in their vascular tone or their hearts ability to pump. In fact, ... supplementation has been shown to exert vascular protective effects in certain clinical settings, ...

$13 million federal grant for research into vascular disease awarded to Weill Cornell

... another $13 million grant to the Center of vascular Biology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City for biomedical research into vascular disease -- specifically atherosclerosis and ... "Perhaps the greatest strength of Weill Cornell's vascular Biology Program, which began 17 years ago, is its ...

High blood pressure in older adults traced to gene's effects in blood vessels

... in the structure of the blood vessels, called vascular remodeling, increases with age and triggers the ... amounts of the human profilin 1 gene in the vascular smooth muscle cells and observed the changes to ... developed. This is an important finding because vascular disease originates in the smooth muscle cells, ...

Proposal to step up cardiovascular disease research

... deaths, depending on the country. The European vascular Biology Institute (EVBI) is being presented at ... existing projects, and in particular the European vascular Genomics Network (EVGN), which has been running ... the EVGNs Zebrafish animal model, which allows vascular disease progression and the action of therapies ...

Life-threatening gene defect located by UT-Houston researchers

... has identified a defective gene that affects vascular smooth-muscle cells in people who suffer from ... leader in discovering gene defects that can cause vascular abnormalities, said study co-author Dong Kim, ... and chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic vascular Surgery at the UT Medical School. Blood from ...

Contribution of cholesterol transporter to vascular disease

... of cholesterol, may also contribute to vascular diseases by a previously unidentified mechanism, ... reveals a link between native LDL (nLDL) and the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 (VEGFR1), ... plaques that lead to hardening of the arteries. vascular diseases such as thrombosis, stroke and heart ...

The conservation lens

... fauna such as pandas, tigers, and whales; or on vascular plants such as giant redwoods and orchids. ... the geographical distribution of species of vascular and non-vascular plants in southern South ... temperate rainforests, peatlands). Globally, vascular plants are 20 times more abundant than ...

Study reveals a key to blood vessel growth and possible drug target

... an important insight into the development of the vascular system during embryonic development but suggests ... the integrity of the blood vessel wall during vascular development -- in zebrafish embryos. The pathway these molecules make up during vascular development has not been looked at before, says ...

Study finds blocking angiogenesis signaling from inside cell may lead to serious health problems

... angiogenesis inhibitors work by blocking vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), an important ... that remained alive developed serious systemic vascular illness, said Luisa Iruela-Arispe, a professor of ... past president of the North American vascular Biology Organization and a national expert on ...

Gender, coupled with diabetes, affects vascular disease development

... - Diabetes is associated with the development of vascular (blood vessel) disease. As we age, vascular disease becomes more common. It has been thought ... be more susceptible to the earlier development of vascular disease, ...

New drug may reduce heart attack damage

... the high-impact cardiovascular journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and vascular Biology . "While this drug doesn't prevent the heart attack, it does ... said lead investigator Professor Levon Khachigian, from UNSW's Centre for vascular Research. "It's a targeted therapy that can be used to complement ...

Major breakthrough in early detection and prevention of AMD

... (CNV) the invasive growth of new blood vessels in the thin vascular layer that provides nourishment and oxygen to the eye. Central vision loss ... on the surface of CNV vessels in humans but is absent from normal vascular tissue. "CCR3 chemokine receptor is known to be a key player in the ...