Blood plasma is a light yellow liquid that makes up about half of a person’s blood. Blood plasma is vital for fighting infection, maintaining correct blood pH levels, helping blood to clot, and ...

Hypertension is an established risk factor for stroke and vascular dementia, and increasing evidence supports a role for hypertension also in the etiology of Alzheimer’s disease. 1, 2 However, the ...

The primary responsibility of the heart is to pump blood throughout the circulatory system. As the center of the circulatory system, the heart is an essential organ for maintaining the overall ...

Red blood cells are important mediators of the innate immune system. Depending on the cellular environment, these cells either activate the immune system or maintain the system in a dormant state. In ...

Liver failure is associated with dyshomeostasis of efflux transporters at the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which contributes to hepatic encephalopathy. In this study we examined whether breast cancer ...

In a recent publication in Nature Aging, a collaborative research team led by Chen-Yu Zhang, Xi Chen, Yanbo Wang and Lei Fang at Nanjing University presents a significant discovery: small ...