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"Stem sells" |
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23 Aug 2007 01:08:15 PM |
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Mechanical properties of heart plaque |
Is this stuff brittle or soft?
Why not somehow melt, physically crack, or scrape this out of the
arteries/veins with micro-robots?
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| User: "Greg Neill" |
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| Title: Re: Mechanical properties of heart plaque |
23 Aug 2007 03:13:08 PM |
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"Stem sells" <gestureofrespect@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1187892495.963589.166370@r23g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
Is this stuff brittle or soft?
Why not somehow melt, physically crack, or scrape this out of the
arteries/veins with micro-robots?
Good idea. Where's it going to go to from there?
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| User: "malibu" |
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| Title: Re: Mechanical properties of heart plaque |
23 Aug 2007 03:25:30 PM |
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On Aug 23, 2:13 pm, "Greg Neill" <gneill...@OVEsympatico.ca> wrote:
"Stem sells" <gestureofresp...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1187892495.963589.166370@r23g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
Is this stuff brittle or soft?
Why not somehow melt, physically crack, or scrape this out of the
arteries/veins with micro-robots?
Good idea. Where's it going to go to from there?
They already use a balloon to expand the artery
and break the constricting circle
of plaque *within* the arterial wall.
Some of it is resorbed, I imagine, and the rest stays
right where it is.
The endometrium (inner wall) of the artery remains
unbroken and simply stretches.
The plaque does not enter the blood stream.
John
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| User: "malibu" |
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| Title: Re: Mechanical properties of heart plaque |
23 Aug 2007 01:27:53 PM |
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On Aug 23, 12:08 pm, Stem sells <gestureofresp...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Is this stuff brittle or soft?
Why not somehow melt, physically crack, or scrape this out of the
arteries/veins with micro-robots?
It's hard, crystallized Cholesterol
and actually replaces tissue between the
inside and outside of the vessel.
55% of it contains Herpesvirus.
Herpesvirus has been shown to deposit
crystallized Cholesterol in plaque form in
cultured cat cells.
I have found that Herpesvirus can be
discouraged by change of diet to eliminate
Hydrogenated and partially Hydrogenated fats.
Your liver makes your own Cholesterol. You
don't need the cow's.
John
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| User: "PD" |
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| Title: Re: Mechanical properties of heart plaque |
23 Aug 2007 05:25:43 PM |
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On Aug 23, 1:08 pm, Stem sells <gestureofresp...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Is this stuff brittle or soft?
Why not somehow melt, physically crack, or scrape this out of the
arteries/veins with micro-robots?
One big problem with arterial plaque is the chance that it will
spontaneously crack or fall off the wall of the artery, causing a
stroke or a pulmonary or cardiac thrombosis. You are suggesting
initiating that on purpose.
That's a little like treating Alzheimer's with a lobotomy.
PD
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| User: "Andy Resnick" |
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| Title: Re: Mechanical properties of heart plaque |
23 Aug 2007 05:01:28 PM |
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Stem sells wrote:
Is this stuff brittle or soft?
Why not somehow melt, physically crack, or scrape this out of the
arteries/veins with micro-robots?
Arterial plaque is essentially a clot. What happens to the clot once
it's scraped off the aterial walls? Sending it to the lungs is bad.
Sending it to the brain is bad. That's why stents and balloons are used.
--
Andrew Resnick, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Case Western Reserve University
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