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smooth muscle

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smooth muscle [′smüth′məs·əl]
(anatomy)
The involuntary muscle tissue found in the walls of viscera and blood vessels, consisting of smooth muscle fibers.


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6) In fact, if the smooth muscle had not been noticed and confirmed with smooth-muscle actin immunostaining, the lesion would have been called a "cavernous hemangioma" (itself distinct from a malformation).
The results show that nandina extract helps inhibit the contraction of the tracheal smooth muscle.
Similar effects were also observed in aortic rings without endothelium, suggesting that vascular smooth muscle plays a key role in enhancing vasoconstriction induced by arsenite.
 
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