TY - CHAP AU - Ricardo Espinosa-Tanguma AU - Paola Algara-Suárez AU - Rebeca Mejía-Elizondo AU - Víctor Saavedra-Alanís ED - Haruo Sugi Y1 - 2012-07-18 PY - 2012 T1 - The Role of Sodium-Calcium Exchanger in the Calcium Homeostasis of Airway Smooth Muscle N2 - 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. BT - Current Basic and Pathological Approaches to the Function of Muscle Cells and Tissues SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/47758 DO - 10.5772/47758 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -