Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating ...

This important study examines the role of pericytes in patterning the zebrafish blood-brain barrier (BBB) and controlling its permeability. Using pdgfrb mutant zebrafish models lacking brain pericytes ...

Delivering drugs to specific, hard-to-reach areas in the human body remains a challenge in drug development. Typically, drug ...

An estimate of the concentration of hemoglobin in grams per 100 ml of packed red blood cells, normal adult value is between 32 and 36% This parameter is calculated from the ratio of hemoglobin to ...

Oocyte maturation is a complex and dynamic process regulated by the coordination of ovarian cells and numerous extraovarian signals ... Based on the association between infertility and excess ...

In animals, exosomes are secreted mainly by immune cells such as tumor cells, red blood cells, platelets, lymphocytes, and dendritic cells (Mandal, 2016). They are present in biological fluids such as ...

Platelet counts may fluctuate due to natural vascular aging, changes in bone marrow tissue, and altered blood plasma makeup. Platelets, or thrombocytes, are colorless fragments of larger cells ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different types of neurons affect the ability to move, which begins as an impulse, or ...

Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-5127, United States ...

Later, they also took blood samples from the mice to understand how the microplastics had interacted with cells in the bloodstream. And they conducted behavioral experiments to test whether the ...