smooth muscle Involuntary muscle without the striated fibers of skeletal muscle. It automatically operates internal organs such as the stomach, bladder, and blood vessels. Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited ...
to plaque rupture. The role of smooth muscle cell-derived macrophage-like cells in atherosclerosis was under controversial. Here, we find that SMC-derived macrophage-like cells could revert to smooth muscle cells in fibrous cap of advanced plaques, suggesting that these cells may play a protective...
Joseph A.Hill,Eric N.Olson, inMuscle, 2012 Smooth Muscle Smooth musclelacks the striations of skeletal and cardiac muscle because the actin and myosin filaments are not regularly arrayed along the length of the cell. Instead, the arrangement of filaments is less regimented and occurs as a spir...
A diagram showing the composition of a blood vessel. Smooth muscle cells are found in the tunica media. Like a skeletal muscle, the contraction of a vascular smooth muscle is controlled by the nervous system. Unlike skeletal muscles, which are voluntarily controlled, vascular smooth muscles are i...
smooth muscle Involuntary muscle without the striated fibers of skeletal muscle. It automatically operates internal organs such as the stomach, bladder, and blood vessels. Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited ...
Smooth Muscle CellElectrical CouplingCalcium DynamicsDiffusive CouplingSynchronizationThe propagation of Ca~(2+) wave through gap junction in smooth muscle cell is studied as a function of electrical coupling parameter (g) modulated by Ca~(2+) level in the cell. The range of activation time of ...
Smooth muscle cell (SMC) phenotypic modulation, primarily driven by PDGFRβ signaling, is implicated in occlusive cardiovascular diseases. However, the promotive and restrictive regulation mechanism of PDGFRβ and the role of protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 14 (PTPN14) in neointimal hyper...
In this article we address pacemaker dynamics associated with the interaction of \text{Ca}^{2+} \text{Ca}^{2+} and \text{K}^+ \text{K}^+ fluxes in the cell membrane of a smooth muscle cell. First we reduce a pacemaker model to a two-dimensional system equivalent to the reduced ...
a The diagram shows the construction strategy of smooth muscle cell-specific LncDACH1 conditional knockout mouse. b The diagram shows the construction strategy of adeno-associated Virus overexpressing LncDACH1 mouse. c, e HE staining of vascular tissue and morphometric analysis of the extent of vas...
A contractile smooth muscle cell construct and a method for preparing the smooth muscle cell construct are described. The smooth muscle cell construct is comprised of (i) smooth muscle cells that have