An estimated 55 million people are believed to be living with dementia, according to health officials. Vascular diseases ...

Depending on a range of factors including patient age, number of cavernous malformations, lesion size, location within critical or non-critical areas of the brain or spinal cord, presence of other ...

The connection takes place in a focused collection of abnormal vessels called the AVM nidus. These lesions represent about 20 percent of spinal vascular malformations and can present with bleeding ...

In atherosclerosis, the vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC ... muscle cell in the natural history of the atherosclerotic lesion seems to be to act as a nidus for development of the lesions ...

During development, cells grow, expand, and migrate to generate tissues and organs in a highly controlled manner.

They show up as bright white spots when you get a brain MRI: lesions called white matter ... "That was true even when we ...

Patients underwent MRI at baseline, 24, 48 and 120 weeks to measure lesion amount and level of brain atrophy. Lesion activity was examined by fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR), as well ...

Carbonell, W. S., Ansorge, O., Sibson, N. & Muschel, R. The vascular basement membrane as “soil” in brain metastasis. PLoS One 4, e5857 (2009). An assumption ...

New research on mice has shed light on how high blood pressure causes changes to arteries in the brain, a process that leads to vascular dementia. The research, led by University of Manchester ...