Smooth Muscle Spontaneous Activity Physiological and Pathological Modulation

Smooth Muscle Spontaneous Activity Physiological and Pathological Modulation / edited by Hikaru Hashitani, Richard J. Lang.

This book presents the commonality and heterogeneity of the mechanisms underlying smooth muscle spontaneous activity in various smooth muscle organs and in addition discusses their malfunctions in disease and their potential as novel therapeutic targets. To facilitate understanding, the volume is di...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hashitani, Hikaru (Editor), Lang, Richard J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1124
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Human physiology.
Pharmacology.
Neurosciences.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I: Gastrointestinal tract
  • Phasic muscle
  • Spontaneous electrical activity and rhythmicity in gastrointestinal smooth muscles
  • Tonic muscle (Sphincters)
  • Generation of tone by gastrointestinal sphincters
  • PART II: Urinary tract
  • Renal pelvis
  • Pacemaker mechanisms driving pyeloureteric peristalsis: modulatory role of interstitial cells
  • Ureter
  • Excitation-contraction coupling in ureteric smooth muscle: mechanisms driving ureteric peristalsis
  • Urinary Bladder
  • Spontaneous activity and the urinary bladder
  • Urethra
  • Spontaneous activity in urethral smooth muscle
  • PART III: Reproductive organs
  • Corporal tissue
  • Ion channels and intracellular calcium signalling in corpus cavernosum
  • Prostate
  • Generation and regulation of spontaneous contractions in the prostate gland
  • Seminal vesicle
  • Mucosa-dependent, stretch-sensitive spontaneous activity in seminal vesicle
  • Uterus
  • The myometrium – from excitation to contractions and labour
  • Oviducts
  • Myosalpinx contractions are essential for egg transport along the oviduct and are disrupted in reproductive tract diseases
  • PART IV: Blood vessels
  • Artery
  • Cellular and Ionic Mechanisms of Arterial Vasomotion
  • Vein
  • Venous Vasomotion
  • Microvasculature
  • Role of pericytes in the initiation and propagation of spontaneous activity in the microvasculature
  • Lymphatic vessels
  • Lymphatic vessel pumping
  • PART V: Airways
  • Regulation of airway smooth muscle contraction in health and disease.

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