Vascular paste

Made from the compound that the mussels use to cling to the cliffs, a new gel can be spread onto the arterial walls, veins and vascular reinforcement there.

The new glue helps protect blood vessel walls from the risk of blood vessel rupture causing a heart attack

Similar to amino acids that allow clams to resist the sweeping power of water waves, biological 'glue' can withstand the flow of blood along veins and veins, while reinforcing vascular walls. weak blood at risk of rupture, reported by the University of British Columbia (Canada) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Professor Christian Kastrup helped develop similar compounds when he was a graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA).

With the new variant, Kastrup and his colleagues have made it possible to thicken the walls of blood vessels like in the case of using fillings on the wall.

By forming a stable protective layer between blood and blood vessel walls, the gel can prevent inflammation from occurring when the stent (plastic hollow tube) is placed into a narrowed artery or vein.

The most potential application is to prevent fatty tissue from breaking blood vessels, triggering heart attacks or brain strokes.