Smooth Muscles
Titanium Dioxide Modulation of the Contractibility of Visceral Smooth Muscles In Vivo
... visceral smooth muscles occurs via parasym- pathetic and sympathetic control with the direct partici- pation of excitation and inhibition neuromediators, ...in smooth muscles, for instance, in ...
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Calcium Antagonistic Activity of Biophytum Petersianum on Vascular Smooth Muscles of Wistar Rat
... The major finding in this study was that the hydro- alcoholic extract of B. petersianum acts as a non- selective calcium antagonist. Our study demonstrated that pre-treatment with the plant extract prevents, in a ...
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Butyrlycholine esterase inhibitory activity and effects of extracts (fruit, bark and leaf) from Zanthoxylum armatum DC in gut, airways and vascular smooth muscles
... tracheal muscles in a concentration dependent manner ...tracheal muscles by antagonizing the muscarinic recep- tors as well as by ...of smooth muscles of ...
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Determinants of airway hyperresponsiveness—Balance of tonic and phasic contractility of airway smooth muscles of lobular bronchioles
... A large number of ASM cells compose the bronchial bundle (the ASM bundle) as a major contractile compo- nent of the bronchial tree. A piece of the ASM bundle with the degree of contraction was assumed to be composed of ...
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Original Article Smooth muscles and stem cells of embryonic guts express KIT, PDGFRRA, CD34 and many other stem cell antigens: suggestion that GIST arise from smooth muscles and gut stem cells
... tract smooth muscles (HEGITSM) and human embryonic stem gastrointestinal cells (HEGISC) consistently express KIT, CD34, NCAM, PDGFRA and other stem cell (SC) antigens NSE, synaptophysin, chromogranin, ...
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STUDY OF EFFECT OF ERYTHROMYCIN BASE ON GASTROINTESTINAL SMOOTH MUSCLES IN LABORATORY ANIMALS IN VITRO
... other smooth muscles of the gastrointestinal tract, rabbit jejunum is inherently highly electrically excitable cell and hence smaller doses of erythromycin have affected the jejunal ...
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EFFECT OF CEFTRIAXONE ON ISOLATED GASTROINTESTINAL, TRACHEAL AND UTERINE SMOOTH MUSCLES
... intestinal smooth muscles of rabbit's duodenum, guinea pig's ileum and rat's ...of smooth muscle was temporarily increased with 800 mg/kg cefminox when administered intravenously and in upper doses ...
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Pharmacological characterization of CGRP receptor subtypes in rat isolated smooth muscles
... aortic smooth muscle cells, it was suggested that CGRP interacts with adrenomedullin receptors (Eguchi et al, 1994a), and binding studies revealed the presence of these receptors (Ishizaka et a l, 1994; Iwasaki, ...
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The Relaxant Effect of Plantago Major on Rat Tracheal Smooth Muscles and Its Possible Mechanisms
... Figure 5. The concentration-response relaxant effect of hydroalcoholic extract of Plantago major (P. major) on methacholine (10 µM) and KCl (60 mM) induced contraction of non-incubated tracheal smooth muscle (TSM) ...
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The heterogeneity of the Na(+),K(+)-ATPase ouabain sensitivity in microsomal membranes of rat colon smooth muscles
... colon smooth muscle permeabilized microsomes has been analyzed ac- cording to the model of two independent binding sites of inhibitor to determine the activity of sepa- rate molecular forms of the enzyme that ...
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TRPC1/TRPC3 channels mediate lysophosphatidylcholine- induced apoptosis in cultured human coronary artery smooth muscles cells
... The earlier study showed that lysophosphatidylcholine (lysoPC) induced apoptosis in human coronary artery smooth muscle cells (SMCs); however, the related molecular mechanisms are not fully understood. The present ...
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Original Article MLC20, MYPT1, PP1c and CPI-17 expression and phosphorylation in intestinal smooth muscle specimens from patients with Hirschsprung disease
... of smooth muscles during the contrac- tion phase, consistent with the contraction and stiffness state of the stenotic segment of intestinal canal in HSCR ...of smooth muscles as well as ...
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Impact of Sildenafil on Smooth Muscle and Blood Vessels by Using Light and Electron Microscopy
... skeletal muscles and trachea bronchial muscles are being considered for further studies, highlighting the potential of Sildenafil ...the smooth muscles in the penis and a few veins in albino ...
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Genetic lineage labeling in zebrafish uncovers novel neural crest contributions to the head, including gill pillar cells
... NC is a pluripotent embryonic tissue that differentiates into numerous cell types, such as osteoblasts and chondroblasts in the skull, neurons of the peripheral nervous system, Schwann cells and pigment cells ...
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Africans, Cherokees, and the ABCFM Missionaries in the Nineteenth Century: An Unusual Story of Redemption
... cultured smooth muscles from the tissue (Table ...cultured smooth muscle cells from rat basilar artery, however, another research group did not observe ...
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A Rare Retroperitoneal Mass: Leiomyosarcoma of the Inferior Vena Cava
... Leiomyosarcoma of the inferior vena cava (IVC) is a rare soft tissue tumor, mesenchymal in origin that arises from smooth muscles of tunica media; it accounts for about 0.5% of all soft tissue sar- comas, ...
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Intra Scrotal Extra Testicular Leiomyoma, a Common Mesenchymal Tumor at a Rare Site: Emphasizing the Need for Awareness of Its Occurrence
... Leiomyoma is a benign tumor of smooth muscles. Leiomyoma originating from the scrotum is a rare entity. We report a case of 53-year-old African male who presented with a 3 cm lump in the right side of ...
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... in smooth muscles of tracheal rings are developed equally in different gestation weeks, both in alive-born and still-born children, as well as in certain pathological lung conditions, and that they do not ...
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Effect of pH on the rate of myosin head detachment in molluscan catch muscle: are myosin heads involved in the catch state?
... Certain bivalve mollusc smooth muscles have the ability to maintain force for long periods of time even after cessation of stimulation. This phenomenon is called ‘catch state’ or, briefly, ‘catch’ (Jewell, ...
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Expression and localization of prostaglandin receptors and stromal factors in human cervix—Variations in pregnant and non pregnant states
... regulates the synthesis of hyaluronan-like glycosami- noglycan [27] which has been shown to induce cervical ripening by remodeling the extracellular matrix via the dispersion and separation of collagen bundles [29]. Our ...
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