Using a novel mouse model developed by the same group ... levels were high in the bloodstream, levels in artery-lining ...

Instead, their findings reveal that when ceramides decrease in endothelial cells lining blood vessels ... ceramide production increases as a protective response in a mouse model of coronary artery ...

Figure 3: Nicotine stimulates angiogenesis in a mouse model ... percentage of cells undergoing apoptosis during hypoxia (data not shown). Here we show that nicotine increases endothelial cell ...

New research has uncovered a surprising culprit underlying cardiovascular diseases in obesity and diabetes -- not the presence of certain fats, but their suppression. The study challenges the ...