Aging of Blood Vessels

Blood vessels and the aging kidney.

Aging is associated with a degenerative effect on many organs including the kidney. Blood vessels play a key role in the progression of renal damage in aging, with reductions in glomerular filtration rate and renal blood flow. Therefore, there is considerable interest in the haemodynamic and molecular mechanisms that may be responsible for alterations in the vascular system in aging. In this re...

Buying into healthy blood vessels: exercise and aging.

IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT YOU ARE the chief executive of a major pharmaceutical company. You know that: 1) cardiovascular disease is a major killer, and 2) worldwide increases in longevity and adoption of “Western” diets in the developing world will likely increase the number of individuals needing treatment for cardiovascular disease. You also know that the pathophysiological effects of cardiovascu...

Blood Vessels

This excellent monograph by Phillippe Sengel brings together an enormous body of data on the embryonic development of the skin in mammals, birds, and reptiles, and most of the information available on the many chemical factors and tissue interactions which produce these changes. The book is divided into four sections. The first describes the histogenesis of developing skin visible with the ligh...

Regulation of blood vessels.

THE CARDIOVASCULAR system serves the biologic organism as a transportation and mixing system. The demalnd by the organism for this service varies in different tissues and at different times while the volume of blood in the organism tends to remain constant. The cardiovascular system fulfills its function, therefore, by varying the rate and the distribution of blood flow. Blood vessels play a ma...

Mechanics of Blood Vessels