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Smooth muscle cell
Smooth muscle cells are characterized by a spindle shape and a single, long nucleus and they contract involuntarily. These cells undergo significant configurational changes during contraction and relaxation. Smooth muscle cells are located in hollow visceral organs including the liver, pancreas, and intestines where they aid in digestion and absorption of nutrients.
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DEC 28, 2022
Immunology
Scientists have discovered that an inflammatory cytokine known as LIGHT is a major factor in the deadly airway damage th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 24, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
There is a class of drugs called “Phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors” (PDE5 inhibitors.) Such drugs in this clas
...
Written By:
Greta Anne
AUG 23, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
Asthma is a disease that affects the lungs, causing symptoms of wheezing, tightness in the chest, and shortness of breat
...
Written By:
Zoe Michaud
OCT 28, 2021
Clinical & Molecular DX
Both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are airway disorders associated with elevated, uncontrolled
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
MAY 18, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
In recent years, researchers have been learning more about why cellular antennas called cilia are so important. Cilia ca
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 17, 2020
Immunology
A protein produced by the nervous system seems to play a role in regulating the immune system. For people with inflammat
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 04, 2020
Cardiology
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) is a progressive and fatal disease characterized by the muscularization of blood c
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
DEC 06, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Domesticated dogs have differet facial features to their wild cousins, wolves, with smaller teeth, floppy ears and short
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
OCT 07, 2019
Clinical & Molecular DX
Hypertension is also known as high blood pressure is a serious condition. According to the Centers for Disease Cont
...
Written By:
Nupur Srivastava
MAY 29, 2019
Cardiology
Uterine fibroids are generally benign tumors of the smooth muscle within the uterus. In females, they are the most commo
...
Written By:
Abbie Arce
SEP 15, 2018
Clinical & Molecular DX
Anoikis have always been intimately entwined with cancer, henceforth the quest to seek how they came to be as such.
Written By:
Sharvin Manickam
JUN 27, 2018
Immunology
While studying specific immune cells in the context of chronic itching in the skin, two Washington University School of
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 26, 2018
Cardiology
Using a web tool called GeneMatcher, scientists from Baylor College of Medicine studying defective copies of the ari-1 g
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 24, 2018
Drug Discovery & Development
Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease. It is common and affects more than 300 million people worldwide and over 40 mil
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
MAR 06, 2018
Clinical & Molecular DX
An extremely rare genetic disease that causes accelerated aging and heart disease has been little studied, largely due t
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 17, 2018
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cuttlefish are extraordinary animals; they can transform in myriad ways. Scientists have learned more about the processe
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 20, 2018
Cardiology
One small molecule called nitric oxide (NO) plays so many different roles in the cell, valuable and destructive. Scienti
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 16, 2018
Cardiology
A new treatment to be used in the wake of a heart attack is a little bit like putting a bandaid on a cut to prevent it f
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 28, 2017
Cardiology
Key differences between two cardiovascular conditions call for drugs with different therapeutic activity to successfully
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 15, 2017
Cardiology
For the first time, scientists have produced the “cardiac proteome,” a map of all of the tens of thousands o
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 09, 2017
Cardiology
When your muscles feel stiff - if you’ve just woken up or you’re sore from exercise - it’s difficult t
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 02, 2017
Immunology
Miscommunication between the nervous system and the immune system leads to the coughing and wheezing known all too well
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 09, 2017
Cardiology
While studying the formation of the kidney, researchers realized that a gene they had deleted to examine the effect of i
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 16, 2017
Health & Medicine
The active ingredient in several types of drugs to treat erectile dysfunction (ED) may be protective of heart hea
...
Written By:
Kara Marker