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Security millimetre wave body scanner safe for patients with pacemakers and defibrillators

Body scanners used for security checks are safe for patients with pacemakers and defibrillators, according to late breaking research presented today…

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Air pollution leads to cardiovascular diseases

Air pollution, and fine dust in particular, is responsible for more than four million deaths each year. Almost 60 per cent of deaths occur as a result…

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Important for bypass patients: Drug-eluting stents are not superior to bare-metal stents long-term

If several coronary vessels are dangerously narrowed, patients are often treated with a bypass operation. In other words, vascular grafts are…

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DZHK partner site Munich receives Leducq funding for atherosclerosis research

An international consortium including researchers from Munich's DZHK has been awarded 6 million dollars from the French-American Leducq Foundation.…

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July 2018

Chrono-pharmacological targeting of the CCL2-CCR2 axis ameliorates atherosclerosis. Cell Metabolism (2018), DZHK authors: Winter, Silvestre-Roig,…

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June 2018

Inflammation leads through PGE/EP3 signaling to HDAC5/MEF2‐dependent transcription in cardiac myocytes. EMBO Molecular Medicine (2018), DZHK authors:…

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Mainz scientists identify enzyme responsible for vascular damage caused by aircraft noise

In a recent study, scientists at the Department of Cardiology of University Medical Center Mainz have identified an enzyme responsible for…

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Copernicus Award 2018 for Stefan Anker

Cardiologists from Berlin and Wrocław to receive the award from the DFG and the Foundation for Polish Science / Award ceremony to take place on 25…

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Polarized cells give the heart its fully developed form

When it first starts to develop, the heart is a simple tube. Reporting in the journal Nature Communications, researchers at MDC have now described how…

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May 2018

H19 Induces Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Development and Progression. Circulation, 2018. DZHK authors: Li, Busch, Hofmann, Ramanujam, Dueck, Engelhardt,…

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