A new study by researchers at Yale and Johns Hopkins University has discovered how asthmatic bronchial spasms — muscle contractions in the airway that cause difficulty breathing in asthma patients— ...

The normal erectile function is achieved when three simultaneous and synergic processes occur: increase of arterial blood influx in penis, relaxation of corpus cavernosum smooth muscle and restriction ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas are the first to use genetically engineered mice containing a fluorescent molecule to examine in real time the chemical reactions that result in ...

Roberta D'Emmanuele di Villa Bianca, Raffaella Sorrentino, Pasquale Maffia, Vincenzo Mirone, Ciro Imbimbo, Ferdinando Fusco, Raffaele De Palma, Louis J. Ignarro, Giuseppe Cirino Proceedings of the ...

Researchers have known that the enzyme Rho kinase (ROK) plays an important role in maintaining the tone of the internal anal sphincter (IAS), which is crucial for normal bowel functioning. When the ...