Grutzendler disagreed that this is a semantics issue. The cells on precapillary arterioles have a typical smooth muscle cell shape, with circumferential bands wrapping the vessel, he noted. “Utilizing ...

Smooth muscle fibers have an oblong shape, much like a football ... Cardiac muscle fibers have their own rhythm. Special cells, called pacemaker cells, generate the impulses that cause cardiac ...

Smooth muscle cells make up thin sheets of muscle ... They are a flat disc shape with dips on both sides (biconcave) which gives them a large surface area. Nerve cells are thin and long so ...

Whether or not you’ve resolved to get into shape this January ... The human body has three types of muscle cells: Skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Smooth muscles line the inside of all our ...

Uterine fibroids (also called myomas or leiomyomas) are benign (noncancerous) tumors in muscle tissue that can change the shape or size of your uterus and sometimes your cervix. Fibroids occur when a ...

The dozens of cell types that make up our body range in size and shape from small ... just our skeletal muscle cells that change size — when a woman is pregnant the smooth muscle cells of ...

The heart pumps blood through the vascular system, supplying cells with oxygen and energy Smooth muscle cells in the vessels finely regulate the blood flow. If they cannot perform their task ...

Whether bronchi dilate or constrict is determined by smooth muscle cells in bronchial tissue. Chronic inflammation in asthma and the associated accumulation of inflammatory cells lead to increased ...

We tested the hypothesis that there were differences between the two conditions in the microlocalization of mast cells within the airway smooth muscle. Immunohistochemical analysis of bronchial ...