Muscle cells self-organize into spirals, advancing efforts to engineer tiny blood vessels that regulate flow

Different tissues need different amounts of blood depending on what they are doing. Meeting those changing demands requires ...
Nature

Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Smooth Muscle Function

The contractile function of smooth muscle relies on the dynamic interplay of three principal cytoskeletal networks: actin filaments, intermediate filaments and microtubules. Actin polymerisation and ...
Medical Xpress

Scientists find that smooth muscles of the digestive system are sensitive to zero gravity

RUDN University scientists have discovered that in weightlessness, the contractile activity of smooth muscles in the hollow organs of the gastrointestinal tract is disrupted. New data must be taken ...
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Smooth Muscle Cells Take Center Stage as Gene Study Reveals New Clues to Pulmonary Hypertension

By merging bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing with machine learning and lab experiments, researchers have identified smooth ...
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Rare smooth muscle disorder traced to a single mutation in a non-coding gene

Using whole genome sequencing, researchers identified a single variant in a microRNA gene, MIR145-5p, as the source of multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome, which had gone undiagnosed in a ...
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RUDN scientists: smooth muscles of the digestive system are sensitive to zero gravity

However, there is little data on how the smooth muscles of the gastrointestinal tract react to weightlessness. RUDN University scientists studied the mechanism of gravity sensitivity of the smooth ...