Once you think about diseases that affect women, what's your opinion of? Do you consider of cardiovascular disease? Well, you need to! Cardiovascular disease is not only just a man's disease. Cardiac arrest, stroke along with other cardiovascular diseases are devastating to women, too. Actually, heart disease, that causes cardiac arrest, is the main reason [...]

Regardless of the declining heart disease (CHD) mortality rate, CHD remains a significant reason for premature death and imposes high personal, social and economic costs. Blood cholesterol is a vital risk factor for CHD but is highly recommended while other risk factors for example smoking, raised hypertension and physical inactivity. Blood cholesterol alone is really [...]

Transforming growth factor b (TGF-b) signaling controls multiple cellular processes associated with cell proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, specifying developmental cell fate and extracellular matrix production. Such multifunctionality may be the underlying basis for TGF-b's involvement in many differentcombining a kind I and type II receptor serine/threonine kinase about the cell surface. This permits the kind II [...]