Flipped Cells Cause Leakage in Blood Vessels (IMAGE)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Flipped Cells Cause Leakage in Blood Vessels

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An enzyme activated in diabetics causes previously aligned cells in a blood vessel to reverse their orientation, creating misalignments that allow veins and arteries to leak three times more blood proteins than normally constructed blood vessels.

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