Smooth muscle is dispersed throughout all organ systems where it imparts structure and also plays a role in repair and inflammation. However, the primary role of smooth muscle is contractile function ...

Stenosis or occlusion due to fibrocellular intimal thickening in the intracranial major arteries is thought to be the primary lesion in moyamoya disease, but its etiology and pathogenesis are unknown ...

It has been proposed that vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are the main targeted cells of inflammatory damage ... Takayasu’s arteritis (TAK) is a chronic large-vessel vasculitis (LVV) ...

This study investigated the 2.5-year impact of BT on airway smooth muscle (ASM) mass and clinical parameters by paired data analysis ... Other endpoints were medication use and pulmonary function ...