When blood returns to the heart, it follows a complicated pathway. If you were in the bloodstream, you would follow the steps below one by one. Oxygen-poor blood (shown in blue) flows from the ...

This means that a red blood cell will travel through the heart twice during a complete circulation around the body.

These findings help define a novel pathway by which our blood vessels respond to changes in flow and shed new light on cell ...

The hormone adrenomedullin disrupts insulin signaling in blood vessel cells, contributing to systemic insulin resistance in obesity-associated type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. Blocking ...

Blood vessels are mainly made up of smooth muscle, which can increase blood flow by relaxing ... we focused on one of the cGMP production pathways in the current study," says the researcher.

Cumberland Pharmaceuticals’ Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) drug has improved the amount of blood pumped by the heart, ...