Salvador Moncada: Adventures in Vascular Biology

Synopsis: A recording of The Croonian Lecture by Professor Salvador Moncada FRS of the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, delivered at the Royal Society on 10 May 2005 at 6:00pm.

Thirty years ago it was thought that the endothelium, a layer of thin, flat cells that line the interior surface of blood vessels was inert. However, major discoveries since then have demonstrated that it is a highly metabolic organ involved in maintaining the equilibrium of the circulatory system. In fact it is so important that alterations in its behaviour can lead to vessel wall disease, causing conditions such as hypertension (elevated blood pressure), atheroscelrosis (hardening of the arteries) and thrombosis (blood clots). In this lecture Salvador Moncada discusses the significance of these discoveries for our understanding of normal and abnormal vessel behaviour, and their implications for defining future directions for vascular research.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2005
Year of production: 2005
Subjects: Biology; Medical sciences
Keywords: atherosclerosis; circulatory system; endothelial cells; human biology; hypertension; thrombosis; vascular systems

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