(PDF) Smooth Muscle Spontaneous Activity by Hikaru Hashitani

This is the PDF eBook version for Smooth Muscle Spontaneous Activity – Physiological and Pathological Modulation by Hikaru Hashitani, Richard J. Lang

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.