Heart Rate Depression Due to Anesthesia – Understanding the Cause
In veterinary medicine when the technician is anesthetizing a patient with an inhalant anesthetic, the complete anesthetic protocol could include an anticholinergic to thwart ...
Newborn lung and heart damage: help from a common steroid
Premature babies often need treatments to make sure that their underdeveloped brains, hearts and lungs receive enough oxygen. Unfortunately, high levels of oxygen can cause ...
Heart disease risk increased by warmer temperatures at meal time?
This time of year, temperatures go down and heating bills go up. But new research might make you think twice before turning up the heat at meal times! In the laboratory, when ...
Heart disease: Genetics clues from a mouse!
Scientists suspected that a gene called CAP2 played a role in cardiac problems in humans, but until now, it’s been hard to prove. Human patients with deletion of CAP2 ...
Comparative Oncology – Helping ALL Family Members
Did you know there are 20 comparative oncology studies currently going on across the country? What is comparative oncology you ask? With half of dogs over the age of 10 dying ...
Walnuts: Lowering Cholesterol And More!
The next time you are in the grocery store, looking for those items to fill Christmas recipes, pick up some walnuts. They have been associated with better heart and brain ...
Heart disease: Cell formation of mice and men
When a person has a heart attack, muscle cells are damaged to the point that heart function is affected even after recovery. And that’s bad news, because heart muscle ...
Heart defects understood through zebrafish studies
Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) is a developmental disorder that often causes congenital heart defects in humans. But new research is shedding light on how these defects ...
Childhood Obesity: Is Heart Disease in Your Child’s Future?
Clinical methods used to assess adult-onset obesity are often inapplicable for adolescents because of differences in nutritional requirements and body composition. However, ...
Heart disease: Targeting muscle development to treat hypertension?
When patients experience abnormal growth of smooth muscle cells in the arteries of the lungs, the arteries become stiffer and narrower, causing high blood pressure (pulmonary ...