Autophagy is a self-degradative process that is important for balancing sources of energy at critical times in development and in response to nutrient stress. Autophagy also plays a housekeeping role in removing misfolded or aggregated proteins, c ...
Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same locat ...
Osteoarthritis is a chronic degenerative disorder characterised by cartilage loss. It is extremely prevalent in society and is a major cause of disability. It is important to treat osteoarthritis effectively using a multidisciplinary appr ...
It is clinical condition which occurs due to obstacles in the supply of blood to the brain which results in to minor stroke. It is second common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease (AD) in aged person. Risk factor of this di ...
Myocardial infarction is a medical term related to heart attack. Acute myocardial infarction is the major cause of death and disability worldwide, with an ongoing increase in incidence every year. Blood clot is the major reason for the occurrence ...
Vasodilators are medications that open (dilate) blood vessels. They affect the muscles in the walls of your arteries and veins, preventing the muscles from tightening and the walls from narrowing.Vasodilation is a widening of blood vessels th ...
Arterial stiffness indicates two major terms - arteriosclerosis and atheromatosis. These are often combined to atherosclerosis. Arteriosclerosis is a generalized thickening and stiffening of the arterial wall and is related to high ...
A thin layer of cells lining the interior surface of blood vessels and lymphatic vessels is called endothelium. Endothelial cells perform many functions such as barrier function, blot clot formation, formation of new blood vessels and blood pressu ...
It is a chronic condition which affects those blood vessels which are related to lungs or from the lungs. Causes of pulmonary vascular diseases are varies according to lung’s blood vessels are affected.The definition of pulmon ...
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA or triple A) is a localized enlargement of the abdominal aorta such that the diameter is greater than 3 cm or more than 50% larger than normal. They usually cause no symptoms, except during rupture.An ...
Coronary aneurysms are abnormal dilations of the coronary arteries. This can occur as post-stenotic dilation during ahteroslcerotic coronary disease or can occur as a part of a vasculitis. Kawasaki's disease during childhoo ...
A desmoid tumor is an abnormal growth that arises from connective tissue, which is the tissue that provides strength and flexibility to structures such as bones, ligaments, and muscles. Typically, a single tumor develops, although some people have ...
A hormone is any individual from a class of signalling molecules, delivered by organs in multicellular living beings, that are shipped by the circulatory framework to target removed organs to control physiology and behav ...
It is clinical condition which is characterized by thickening of ventricular walls in the heart. Mostly left ventricular hypertrophy is common. Common cause of ventricular hypertrophy is hypertension, aortic valve stenosis, Hypertrophic cardiomyop ...
It is a clinical condition in which blood pressure decreases in the arteries of systemic circulation. Main cause of hypotension is low blood volume, hormonal changes, broadening of blood vessels, side effects of medicine, anaemia, or other heart p ...
It is a clinical condition which is characterized by increased levels of all lipid or all lipoprotein in the blood. Most common cause of hyperlipidemia are diabetes mellitus, renal failure, nephrotic syndrome, and alcohol consumption etc. It can b ...
Cancer, also called malignancy, is an abnormal growth of cells. There are more than 100 types of cancer, including breast cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma. Symptoms vary depending on the type. Cancer tr ...
Blood Clot formation (thrombus) inside the blood vessel is called thrombosis. The tendency of blood clotting takes place when the person is having vein injury or having blood tendency towards clotting or even when people are immobile. There will b ...
Historically, hepatology grew out of gastroenterology and so became a subfield of it, although today it appears to be emerging as a freestanding medical specialty. The hepato- part comes from the Latin hepaticus derived from the Greek he ...
Historically, hepatology grew out of gastroenterology and so became a subfield of it, although today it appears to be emerging as a freestanding medical specialty. The hepato- part comes from the Latin hepaticus derived from the Greek he ...