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Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Current Basic and Pathological Approaches to the Function of Muscle Cells and Tissues - From Molecules to Humans
Edited by Haruo Sugi, ISBN 978-953-51-0679-1, Hard cover, 390 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters published July 18, 2012 under CC BY 3.0 license
DOI: 10.5772/3003 
This volume contains 17 short review articles classified into 3 parts. Part I consists of 7 articles dealing with basic aspects of contractile mechanism in skeletal and smooth muscle cells and also function of melanocytes having many properties common to those of smooth muscles. Part II and Part III contain articles dealing with pathological aspects of cardiac and smooth muscle cell functions, and dealing with factors influencing structure and function of cardiac and smooth muscle cells and tissues. The Editor believes that these articles are stimulating and informative for readers interested in basic, pathological and clinical aspects of muscle cells and tissues.
- Chapter 1
The Gas Environmental Chamber as a Powerful Tool to Study Structural Changes of Living Muscle Thick Filaments Coupled with ATP Hydrolysis - Chapter 2 Calcium Cycling in Synthetic and Contractile Phasic or Tonic Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
- Chapter 3 The Role of Sodium-Calcium Exchanger in the Calcium Homeostasis of Airway Smooth Muscle
- Chapter 4 Contraction by Ca2+ Influx via the L-Type Ca2+ Channel Voltage Window in Mouse Aortic Segments is Modulated by Nitric Oxide
- Chapter 5 MAP Kinase-Mediated and MLCK-Independent Phosphorylation of MLC20 in Smooth Muscle Cells
- Chapter 6 Two Guanylylcyclases Regulate the Muscarinic Activation of Airway Smooth Muscle
- Chapter 7 Melanophores: Smooth Muscle Cells in Disguise
- Chapter 8 Cardiomyocyte and Heart Failure
- Chapter 9 Implication of MicroRNAs in the Pathophysiology of Cardiac and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
- Chapter 10 Cardiovascular Lesions of Kawasaki Disease: From Genetic Study to Clinical Management
- Chapter 11 Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells and the Comparative Pathology of Atherosclerosis
- Chapter 12 Choroidal Vessel Wall: Hypercholesterolaemia-Induced Dysfunction and Potential Role of Statins
- Chapter 13 Different Modulators of Airways and Distal Lung Parenchyma Contractile Responses in the Physiopathology of Asthma
- Chapter 14 Regulation of Differentiated Phenotypes of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
- Chapter 15 Structure and Function of Smooth Muscle with Special Reference to Mast Cells
- Chapter 16 Role of Prokineticin in Epicardial Progenitor Cell Differentiation to Regenerate Heart
- Chapter 17 Hypoxic Pulmonary Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation