Open access peer-reviewed Edited Volume

Current Basic and Pathological Approaches to the Function of Muscle Cells and Tissues - From Molecules to Humans

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Haruo Sugi
Haruo Sugi

Teikyo University,
Japan

Published 18 July 2012

Doi 10.5772/3003

ISBN 978-953-51-0679-1

eBook (PDF) ISBN 978-953-51-7016-7

Copyright year 2012

Number of pages 402

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Table of Contents

Open access  chapters

1. The Gas Environmental Chamber as a Powerful Tool to Study Structural Changes of Living Muscle Thick Filaments Coupled with ATP Hydrolysis

By Haruo Sugi, Hiroki Minoda, Takuya Miyakawa, Suguru Tanokura, Shigeru Chaen and Takakazu Kobayashi

2,507
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2. Calcium Cycling in Synthetic and Contractile Phasic or Tonic Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

By Larissa Lipskaia, Isabelle Limon, Regis Bobe and Roger Hajjar

2,697
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3. The Role of Sodium-Calcium Exchanger in the Calcium Homeostasis of Airway Smooth Muscle

By Ricardo Espinosa-Tanguma, Paola Algara-Suárez, Rebeca Mejía-Elizondo and Víctor Saavedra-Alanís

4,000
6. Two Guanylylcyclases Regulate the Muscarinic Activation of Airway Smooth Muscle

By Marcelo J. Alfonzo, Fabiola Placeres-Uray, Walid Hassan-Soto, Adolfo Borges, Ramona González de Alfonzo and Itala Lippo de Becemberg

2,048
7. Melanophores: Smooth Muscle Cells in Disguise

By Saima Salim and Sharique A. Ali

4,640
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8. Cardiomyocyte and Heart Failure

By Shintaro Nakano, Toshihiro Muramatsu, Shigeyuki Nishimura and Takaaki Senbonmatsu

3,805
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9. Implication of MicroRNAs in the Pathophysiology of Cardiac and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

By Valérie Metzinger-Le Meuth, Eléonore M'Baya-Moutoula, Fatiha Taibi, Ziad Massy and Laurent Metzinger

3,000
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12. Choroidal Vessel Wall: Hypercholesterolaemia-Induced Dysfunction and Potential Role of Statins

By J.M. Ramírez, J.J. Salazar, R. de Hoz, B. Rojas, B.I. Gallego, A.I. Ramírez and A. Triviño

3,657
3
13. Different Modulators of Airways and Distal Lung Parenchyma Contractile Responses in the Physiopathology of Asthma

By Carla Máximo Prado, Edna Aparecida Leick, Fernanda Degobbi Tenório Quirino dos Santos Lopes, Milton A. Martins and Iolanda de Fátima Lopes Calvo Tibério

2,192
14. Regulation of Differentiated Phenotypes of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

By Sho Shinohara, Satoko Shinohara, Takanori Kihara and Jun Miyake

2,932
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17. Hypoxic Pulmonary Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation

By Shiro Mizuno, Hirohisa Toga and Takeshi Ishizaki

4,061
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