Microplastics may cause blockages in blood vessels in the brain and affect behavior, according to a study on mice.

Real-time imaging shows how plastic-stuffed cells form clumps that affect mouse movement.

Researchers have uncovered how specialized cells surrounding small blood vessels, known as perivascular cells, contribute to blood vessel dysfunction in chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and ...

Trapped immune cells laden with microplastics starve the brain of oxygen—mouse study links vascular blockages to memory loss and motor deficits, with lingering risks even after symptoms fade.

A study which harnesses a pioneering 3D printing technique to create tiny human blood vessel structures could eventually help ... which isn’t always accurate to show what’s happening in the human body ...

the human body's massive network of vasculature can be waylaid by the vagaries of age. Indeed, growing older can impact the very process by which healthy new blood vessels are made, resulting in a ...

The tiny blood vessels mimic the intricate networks found in the human body. 3D-printed organs have ... to engineering tissues that function like real organs," say Rouwkema and Rana.

Discovery paves could lead to new prevention, treatment strategies for cancer, diabetes, fibrosis, many other diseases OHSU researchers ...

But no one was looking at the vasculature," the blood vessels that carry the virus throughout the body and in and out of ... Fairweather said the real problem is that once inside the host cells ...

“These cells have an important job, to help grow blood vessels when the body calls for it,” Dr ... the presence of these ...

A real-life example of a blind climber ... around the circulatory system and digestive system in the human body, through blood vessels and into mitochondria. Human fertilisation.