Pericytes, the multifunctional cells that work within the walls of capillaries, have been a subject of focus in the study of vascular development, cerebral blood flow, cancer, and neurodevelopment ...

Neuronal degeneration is the most severe long-term consequence of repetitive seizures in patients with epilepsy, which until now was thought to be primarily caused by excitotoxicity, or ...

Sleep apnea affects nearly one billion people worldwide and causes repeated episodes of oxygen deprivation during the night, ...

To investigate the mechanism by which hypoxia-reoxygenation (HR) mediates macrophage polarization to the M1 phenotype and then mediates cardiomyocyte (CM) pyroptosis through exosome release. Mouse ...

When Hippocrates first described cancer around 400 B.C., he referred to the disease's telltale tumors as "karkinos" -- the Greek word for crab. The "Father of Western Medicine" likely noted that ...