Triglyceride Blood Levels Predict Heart Attack
...olesterol and triglycerides that can adhere to the arteries in the form offatty plaque. HDL is the "good" cholesterol because it transports cholesteroland other fats from the bloodstream. Physicians often combine LDL and HDL, as a cholesterol ratio, to predict aperson's risk of heart disease. However, it h...Wonder Thread: UD Scientists Report First Protein With Collagen And Elastin-Like Domains
...rts. "Elastins typically are found in the skin and arteries of vertebrate species only," she notes. "The presence of these types of sequences in proteins from an invertebrate species is unusual." The elastin-like regions of preCol-P also contained high levels of glycine and alanine--the amino acids most preva...Insulin Resistance Is A Risk Factor For Atherosclerosis In Whites And Hispanics
...materials on the interior artery walls.The carotid arteries serving the brain are particularly susceptible. Stroke canresult when the carotid artery walls narrow to the point that the brain does notget sufficient blood. Howard will present the researchers' findings on August 16 at InternationalNeuroso...Nitric Oxide Found To Control Cells By Turning On Genes; Suggests New Role In Health And Disease
...odegenerative diseases, stroke andhardening of the arteries -- all diseases associated with NO."...Nitric Oxide May Hold Key To First Treatment For Deadly Form Of Malaria, Duke Scientists Report
...odegenerative diseases, stroke andhardening of the arteries -- all diseases associated with NO."...Duke Researchers Discover Central Role Of Nitric Oxide In Hemoglobin Action
...d SNO in the lung, the hemoglobin-triotravels down arteries through the heart and into the rest of the body todeliver its load of oxygen. That process has to happen with open vesselsand in a constant pressure. So as the hemoglobin complex inevitably devoursthe free NO gas that endothelial cells produced to ...