RUDN University scientists have discovered that in weightlessness, the contractile activity of smooth muscles in the hollow organs of the gastrointestinal tract is disrupted. New data must be taken ...
Phenotypic modulation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) is a critical process that are implicated in the pathogenesis of many vascular diseases, including atherosclerosis, aortic aneurysm (AA), ...
Atherosclerosis underlies most heart attacks and strokes and is now recognized as a chronic inflammatory disease rather than a simple disorder of cholesterol deposition. While immune cells such as ...
Skeletal muscle is the type of muscle that controls movement. Problems with these muscles can be minor, life-threatening, or ongoing problems that make it hard to perform basic daily activities.
CASQ1 is a protein that has been known since its discovery 50 years ago in rabbit skeletal muscle (1971) 15,44. The cDNA of CASQ1 was cloned from fast-twitch skeletal muscle from rabbits 45, and the ...