Just like how roads shuttle vehicles throughout a city, blood vessels move blood throughout our body. The inside of the blood vessels is coated by a single layer of flat cells called the endothelium. But the endothelium does not just passively coat the insides of our blood vessels. In fact, it performs many functions that […]
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