Smooth muscle

Anti-smooth muscle antibody
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A type of muscle tissue controlled by the involuntary nervous system, occurring in the walls of the uterus, intestines or blood vessels.
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A benign smooth muscle tumor, usually in the uterus or gastrointestinal tract. Also called fibroid.
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The deficiency of smooth muscle lining cells may be critical. DNA studies from rare families with multiple VMs have shown mutations (alterations) in genes responsible for the formation of and communication between the endothelial lining cells and the ...
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Bronchodilators relax the smooth muscles that line the airway. This makes the airways open wider, letting more air pass through them. These drugs are used mainly to relieve sudden asthma attacks or to prevent attacks that might come on after exercise.
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The blood vessels are carefully lined with smooth muscle fibers and if these special muscles do not receive adequate exercise, they gradually atrophy.
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Prostaglandins are hormone-like substances that can stimulate contracitility of the smooth muscles in the body. Kinins are peptides that can act on smooth muscles and nerve endings.
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They lack the usual amount of smooth muscle tissue and elastin, a fibrous connective tissue. These blood vessels commonly accumulate deposits of calcium salts and hyalin. The venous part of the malformation receives blood directly from the artery.
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The spongy tissue contains smooth muscles, fibrous tissues, spaces, veins, and arteries. The urethra, which is the channel for urine and ejaculate, runs along the underside of the corpora cavernosa.
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Both inv(16)(p13q22) and t(16;16)(p13;q22) result in the fusion of the core binding factor-β (CBFβ) gene at 16q22 to the smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (MYH11) gene at 16p13, thereby forming the fusion gene CBFβ/MYH11.
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Damage to nerves, arteries, smooth muscles, and fibrous tissues, often as a result of disease, is the most common cause of ED.
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Leiomyosarcoma - Cells of this tumor most closely resemble those of smooth muscle. Smooth muscle cells are the cells that move your hollow organs, such as when your intestines squeeze to move food.
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In response to cold or certain emotional states, such as fear or rage, the smooth muscles of the subsurface layer (dermis) of skin tend to contract, causing the skin to pucker and body hair to stand erect.
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That is, like smooth muscle cells in the uterus during pregnancy, fibroid cells exposed to female hormones do not respond normally to signals that would make them self-destruct and return to a nonpregnant state.
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The medication relaxes smooth muscle in the airways that carry air to the lungs (bronchial tubes) and blood vessels in the lungs. This relaxation allows deeper breathing and improved blood flow in the lungs.
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myometrium. The thick wall of smooth muscle cells that forms the middle layer of the uterus.
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs, pronounced en-SAIDS). Medications, used to reduce inflammation, that aren't corticosteroid-based.
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In an asthma attack the smooth muscles of the lungs go into spasm with the surrounding tissue inflammed and secreting mucus into the airways.
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Positive ANA
Positive anti-smooth muscle antibody
Positive anti-liver kidney microsomal antibody
Positive anti-mitochondrial antibody
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The goals of treatment for pulmonary hypertension are to treat the underlying cause, to reduce symptoms and improve quality of life, to slow the growth of the smooth muscle cells and the development of blood clots; ...
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The bladder is a hollow, muscular organ. The bladder wall includes a smooth muscle known as the detrusor muscle. The bladder’s size, shape, position, and relation to other organs vary with age and the amount of urine stored.
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Autonomic neuropathies affect the nerves that regulate involuntary vital functions, including the heart muscle, smooth muscles and glands.
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Muscular Diseases - Acquired, familial, and congenital disorders of skeletal muscle (MUSCLE, SKELETAL) and smooth muscle (MUSCLE, SMOOTH).
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erbium:YAG laser system Laser system for general surgical use including incision, excision, coagulation and vaporization of soft tissue, including subcutaneous, striated and smooth muscle tissue, muscles, cartilage meniscus, calculi, mucous membrane, ...
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