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Myocytes, Smooth Muscle

Known as: Smooth muscle tissue cell, Myocyte, Smooth Muscle, Smooth Muscle Myocytes 
Non-striated, elongated, spindle-shaped cells found lining the digestive tract, uterus, and blood vessels. They are derived from specialized… 
National Institutes of Health

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Anal LeiomyosarcomaBenign Smooth Muscle NeoplasmBreast LeiomyomaCardiac Leiomyosarcoma

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Circular muscle layer of small intestineIntestinal VillusSmooth muscle bundle

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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
In Vivo Prediction of Vascular Susceptibility to Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Withdrawal Magnetic Resonance Imaging of C6 Rat Glioma in Nude Mice
One of the hallmarks of tumor neovasculature is the prevalence of immature vessels manifested by the low degree of recruitment of… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Vascular wound healing and neointima formation induced by perivascular electric injury in mice.
Vascular interventions for atherothrombotic disease frequently induce neointima formation, which can contribute to restenosis of… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Quantitative trait loci in genetically hypertensive rats. Possible sex specificity.
We performed a total genome screen in an F2 cross derived from the stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rat and the… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Upregulation and modulation of inducible nitric oxide synthase in rat cardiac allografts with chronic rejection and transplant arteriosclerosis.
BACKGROUND The Lewis-F344 rat cardiac transplantation model produces cardiac allografts with chronic rejection characterized by… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Rat aortic smooth muscle cells isolated from different layers and at different times after endothelial denudation show distinct biological features in vitro.
Endothelial denudation by balloon injury of the rat aorta induces the development of a neointima as a consequence of the… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
3. Vascular aldosterone. Biosynthesis and a link to angiotensin II-induced hypertrophy of vascular smooth muscle cells
Mineralocorticoids have been suggested to act on blood vessels, leading to increased vasoreactivity and peripheral resistance… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Free‐calcium and force transients during depolarization and pharmacomechanical coupling in guinea‐pig smooth muscle.
1. Fura2 was loaded by permeation and hydrolysis of the acetoxymethyl ester into smooth muscle cells of intact thin sheets of the… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Developmental changes in isoactin expression in rat aortic smooth muscle cells in vivo. Relationship between growth and cytodifferentiation.
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Synthesis of types I and III procollagen and collagen by monkey aortic smooth muscle cells in vitro.
Analysis of pepsin-resistant proteins produced in culture by monkey aortic smooth muscle cells (SMC) indicates the synthesis of… 
Highly Cited
1960
Highly Cited
1960
Crystallized enzymes from the myogen of rabbit skeletal muscle.
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