Atherosclerosis underlies most heart attacks and strokes and is now recognized as a chronic inflammatory disease rather than ...

THE activity of the smooth muscle in guinea-pig ileum has been investigated many times. The tissue preparation most often used for such investigations has been the isolated ileum. In a number of cases ...

I REPORTED in refs. 1 and 2 that trans-membrane potentials of smooth muscle fibre of the small bloodvessels, distributed in frog tongue and web, had been studied with the aid of an intracellular micro ...

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.

The muscular system works to control the movement of our body and internal organs. Muscle tissue contains something called muscle fibers. Muscle fibers consist of a single muscle cell. They help to ...

Muscles and nerve fibers allow a person to move their body and enable the internal organs to function. There are more than 600 muscles in the human body. People also have different types of muscle. A ...