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NIH training grant enhances opportunities for biomedical graduate students
Augusta University has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help support the graduate education of future scientists whose focus is cardiometabolic diseases — like...
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Obesity, high-salt diet pose different cardiovascular risks in females, males
Obesity and a high-salt diet are both bad for our hearts but they are bigger, seemingly synergistic risks for females, scientists report. “We see younger and younger women having cardiovascular disease...
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Copper transporter potential new treatment target for cardiovascular disease
An internal transporter that enables us to use the copper we consume in foods like shellfish and nuts to enable a host of vital body functions also has the essential role of protecting the receptor...
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Bidirectional impact of cardiovascular disease, cancer in Blacks focus of new...
Cardiovascular disease and cancer, the nation’s top two killers, share common ground like obesity and chronic inflammation, as well as a disproportionate impact on Black Americans. A new American Heart...
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Gene that aids cancer cell proliferation is new target for deadly pulmonary...
A gene that is overexpressed in some aggressive cancers also appears to be key to the excessive cell proliferation that thickens the walls of pulmonary arteries and ultimately causes the right...
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Unusual partners aid blood vessel growth
Insufficient oxygen to an area like the heart or legs, called hypoxia, is a cue to our bodies to make more blood vessels, and scientists have found some unusual partners are key to making that happen....
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Powerhouse-pruning protein may also aid new blood vessel growth in vascular...
A protein that helps keep our cell powerhouses working at a premium appears to also help make energy rapidly available when it’s time to make new blood vessels. It’s called glycolysis, which quickly...
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Age, Alzheimer’s-related brain decline linked to little-studied enzyme
A little-studied enzyme has been found in high levels in healthy neurons, levels that scientists say decline with age and more dramatically with Alzheimer’s, making adjusting the enzyme’s level a...
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New evidence of how exercise can counter diabetes damage
One way exercise can counter the damage of diabetes is by enabling activation of a natural system we have to grow new blood vessels when existing ones are ravaged by this disease, scientists report....
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Stepp is new director of MD/PhD program
Dr. David Stepp, federally funded vascular biologist and a 21-year faculty member in the Medical College of Georgia’s Vascular Biology Center, is the new director of the University System of Georgia’s...
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Increase in leptin levels in preeclampsia prompts cardiovascular cascade that...
Before a baby is ever born, critical supply chain problems with nutrition and oxygen can result in premature birth or even death and increase the child and mother’s lifelong risk of cardiovascular...
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Making veins stronger so heart bypass grafts, dialysis access work better
Unnatural, direct connections between arteries and veins, like an access point for kidney dialysis and using a vein to bypass a blockage in a coronary artery, are made to save a life. But, the vein,...
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New target in the fight against heart disease
Soon after cholesterol and fat start depositing on the lining of the blood vessels that supply your heart, the smooth muscle cells that give the blood vessels strength and flexibility start to get...
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Prestigious NIH grant supports Augusta University student researchers
David Stepp, PhD and Jennifer Sullivan, PhD are co-directors of a new National Institutes of Health grant to fund the integrated Multi-Disciplinary Training Program in the Mechanisms of...
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Females of all ages, ethnicities have more salt-sensitive hypertension than...
There is increasing evidence that females of all ethnicities and ages are more salt sensitive than males, and that this propensity to hold onto more salt, which drives blood pressure up, increases...
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Gene essential to making DNA appears to be a good target in minimizing...
The vascular smooth muscle cells that normally give blood vessel walls strength and flexibility proliferate and become destructive in pulmonary hypertension, a typically rapidly progressing condition...
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Medical College of Georgia scientists work to protect the vision of premature...
In the spiraling cycle that can lead to vision loss in premature newborns, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University scientists have found a new target and drug that together appear to stop the...
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Long molecule of RNA essential to our GI tract’s ability to contract and move...
A long molecule of RNA found in abundance in the healthy smooth muscle cells that give our blood vessels strength and flexibility is also essential to the continuous contraction that moves food through...
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Putting the brakes on accelerated aging of bone, muscle from HIV infection,...
Antiretroviral cocktails can make human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, undetectable and untransmittable, but both the virus and its treatment can also accelerate aging of bone and muscle. Now Medical...
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Augusta University researcher secures prestigious grant for research to...
Syed Adeel H. Zaidi, PhD, an assistant research scientist who studies retinal neurovascular biology in the Vascular Biology Center of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, has received...
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Faulkner to be honored by American Heart Association
Jessica Faulkner, PhD, a physiologist at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University whose research is focused on sex differences in cardiovascular disease, is the recipient of the Harry...
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Synthetic peptide could reduce vascular problems associated with COVID-ARDS
A synthetic peptide developed by researchers at Augusta University’s Medical College of Georgia could help reduce vascular problems associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome in COVID-19. In...
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Faculty researchers honored by Augusta University Research Institute
The Augusta University Research Institute recently recognized faculty researchers Mark W. Hamrick, PhD, Gang Zhou, PhD, Gábor Csányi, PhD, and Jessica Faulkner, PhD, for their work in advancing...
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