These cells lining the inside of your brain's blood vessels are tightly packed together, forming your blood-brain barrier.

Researchers have revealed a new scientific clue that could unlock the key cellular pathway leading to devastating neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ...

In Nature Neuroscience, UConn School of Medicine researchers have revealed a new scientific clue that could unlock the key cellular pathway leading to devastating neurodegenerative diseases like ...

A new review published in Genes & Diseases highlights macrophage-targeted therapy as a promising frontier in cardiac regeneration and myocardial repair.

Discover how smoking and alcohol consumption dramatically increase stroke risk by raising blood pressure, damaging vessels, promoting clots, and others ...

Smoking increases oxidative stress, affecting vascular endothelium and reducing retinal and choroidal blood flow. Meta-analysis shows significant CVI reduction in smokers, suggesting dose-dependency ...

Upon inflammation, leukocytes rapidly transmigrate across the endothelium to enter the inflamed tissue. Evidence accumulates that leukocytes use preferred exit sites, alhough it is not yet clear how ...

The union of vascular and metabolic actions of insulin in sickness and in health. Insulin-stimulated production of NO in vascular endothelium is mediated by the insulin receptor (IR) tyrosine kinase ...