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...work as antioxidants and help prevent inflammation in body tissue, that keep the vessels pliable. These substances may also protect against the formation of clots, which are the primary cause of heart attacks. "We found very promptly [that] after drinking green tea, there was a protective effect on the endothelium," says Dr. Charalambos Vlachopoulos, a cardiologist and one of the authors of the study...
...lead to heart disease or what sets the insidious process in motion. The most widely accepted explanation is the so-called injury theory, propounded by Russell Ross at the University of Washington in Seattle. According to Ross, the disease begins with damage to the thin layer of cells, or endothelium, that forms the protective lining of the arteries. In some cases, says Seattle Pathologist Earl Benditt, the lining may be harmed by viral infection. He has detected the presence of herpes virus in about 8% of atherosclerotic tissue samples. Damage can also result from high blood pressure, which forces blood...
Doctors have hesitated to use the plumber's method because they feared that peeling off the inner lining (endothelium), along with the dead tissue, calcium and fatlike substances, might lead to dangerous clotting. A team of five French doctors, headed by Dr. Louis Bazy, chief surgeon of Paris' St. Louis Hospital, has now apparently learned the trick. Dr. Bazy's team splits open the artery (in extreme cases for as much as two feet), scrapes out the stoppage, sews it up again. In a few minutes nature deposits white corpuscles along the wall of the scraped...
...Harvard Zoological Club. Reviews: Recent Work on "Regenerative Potencies of Dissociated Cells," by Mr. W. H. Cole. "The Origin of Blood and Vascular Endothelium in Embryos without a Circulation of the Blood in the Normal Embryo," by C. R. Stockard. Mr. H. R. Hunt. Zoological Laboratory, Room...
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