blood vessels

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1. The flexible tubular canals through which blood circulates in the body. Arteries, veins, and capillaries are all kinds of blood vessels. (See circulatory system.)

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Young adults spend an estimated six hours a day seated, and extended sitting is known to reduce how well blood vessels function.

From Science Daily

About 2.7 million people in the U.S. are thought to have mixed dementia or vascular dementia, which is caused by strokes or mini-strokes that damage blood vessels in the brain.

From MarketWatch

A new preclinical study from investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine reports that hypertension disrupts blood vessels, neurons and white matter in the brain long before blood pressure rises to detectable levels.

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According to Huang, these cells became more responsive to signals from surrounding tissues, particularly endothelial cells that line blood vessels.

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Our body's "blood factory" is made of highly specialized tissue containing bone cells, nerves, blood vessels and several other cell types.

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