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If we look at the anatomy, the blood vessels that surround the heart are smaller in women compared to men, and the way that those blood vessels develop disease is different in women compared to men.
It's also impossible to see through the blood vessels, and even if that were possible, the blood itself is opaque, making it difficult to see the heart valves working.
So without them there, the only vessels remaining are the two major heart arteries: the aorta and pulmonary artery, which rise like white columns from between the ventricles.
The needles punch through the epidermis, allowing ink to seep deep into the dermis, which is composed of collagen fibers, nerves, glands, blood vessels and more.
But sometimes a wound penetrates into the dermis, which contains blood vessels and the various glands and nerve endings that enable the skin's many functions.
As the blood vessels tighten to minimize the bleeding, in a process known as vasoconstriction, both threats are averted by forming a blood clot.
And because these tiny soldiers need to travel through the blood to get to the wound site, the previously constricted blood vessels now expand in a process called vasodilation.
Through this process, which can take over a year, the tensile strength of the new skin is improved, and blood vessels and other connections are strengthened.
For instance, do fibroblast cells arrive from the blood vessels or from skin tissue adjacent to the wound?
The tulip was brought to Europe on trading vessels that sailed from the East.
As these hormones travel through your blood stream, they easily reach your blood vessels and heart.
Cortisol can also cause the endothelium, or inner lining of blood vessels, to not function normally.
Since blood vessels and nerves in our teeth are enclosed deep within, at this stage, the expanding cavity doesn't hurt.
Those are the vessels that supply oxygenated blood to the heart.
The dissolved ibuprofen travels into the small intestine and then across the intestinal wall into a network of blood vessels.
These blood vessels feed into a vein, which carries the blood, and anything in it, to the liver.
As the blood and the drug molecules in it travel through liver blood vessels, enzymes attempt to react with the ibuprofen molecules to neutralize them.
These cells migrate into the bloodstream and the lymphatic system, a network of vessels which helps clear bodily toxins and waste.
Their pain receptors, called nociceptors, trigger in response, cueing the brain to release a flood of neuropeptides that inflame the cranial blood vessels, swelling and heating up the head.
Scientists have theories for what the actual cause is, ranging from spasming blood vessels to overly sensitive nociceptors, but no one knows for sure.
We are the cells and vessels pulsing through these global connectivity networks.
Now it turns out that the blood vessels of many tumors are leaky, and so nanoparticles can leak out from the bloodstream into the tumor.
We know that underneath our facial skin, there's a rich network of blood vessels.
Now, I was in my kitchen, and I was noticing that when you look down the stalks of these asparagus, what you can see are all these tiny little vessels.
This image reminds me of two things: our blood vessels and the structure and organization of our nerves and spinal cord.
Pancreatic cancer tumors have very few blood vessels.
What it means is that blood vessels are everywhere inside us, not just under the surface of our skin.
Pregnant women are not faceless, identity-less vessels of reproduction who can't stand on their own two feet.
Lymphatic vessels, which serve as pathways for immune cells, have recently been discovered in the brain, and they may also play a role in clearing out the brain's daily waste products.
That is the time of year when the Arctic is navigable to vessels.
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