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Cardiac, skeletal, and smooth muscle mitochondrial respiration: are all mitochondria created equal?
American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 2014 Unlike cardiac and skeletal muscle, little is known about vascular smooth muscle mitochondrial respiration. Therefore, the present study examined mitochondrial respiratory rates in smooth muscle of healthy human feed arteries and compared with that of ...
Song-Young Park +11 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 35, Issue 12, March 18, 2025.By fabricating and covalently assembling gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) porous microgels, a new class of granular hydrogel scaffolds with hierarchical porosity is developed. These scaffolds have a significantly higher void fraction than their counterparts made up of nonporous microgels, enhancing cell recruitment and tissue integration. This research may
Alexander Kedzierski +9 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The seed pod valves of Australian Banksia attenuata plants are not simply bi‐layers which bend when dry. These experiments and models reveal complex mechanics, which allow seed release only after several steps of seed pod opening. Stiffness gradients prevent delamination of the valves during loading, and a shape‐memory function protects the seeds ...
Friedrich Reppe +7 more
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Alpha-smooth muscle actin expression upregulates fibroblast contractile activity.
Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2001 To evaluate whether alpha-smooth muscle actin (alpha-SMA) plays a role in fibroblast contractility, we first compared the contractile activity of rat subcutaneous fibroblasts (SCFs), expressing low levels of alpha-SMA, with that of lung fibroblasts (LFs),
B. Hinz +4 more
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INITIAL AND RECOVERY HEAT PRODUCTION IN SMOOTH MUSCLE BASED UPON EXPERIMENTS ON A URINARY BLADDER-NERVE PREPARATION FROM TERRAPIN [PDF]
, 1929 C. D. Snyder, F. W. Light
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Surface‐attached multilayer micromagnet systems are fabricated by two‐photon crosslinking. The pillar‐shaped micro actuators consist of a soft and flexible surface‐attached cell‐repellent hydrogel layer at the bottom, acting as a hinge and a cell‐adhesive hydrophobic polymer filled with magnetic nanoparticles.
Nicolas Geid +5 more
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Stretchable Electrohydraulic Artificial Muscle for Full Motion Ranges in Musculoskeletal Antagonistic Joints [PDF]
arXivArtificial muscles play a crucial role in musculoskeletal robotics and prosthetics to approximate the force-generating functionality of biological muscle. However, current artificial muscle systems are typically limited to either contraction or extension, not both.
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THE MECHANISM OF THE INHIBITION BY CARBONIC ACID OF THE SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION PRODUCED BY HISTAMINE AND OXYTOCIN [PDF]
, 1959 B Halpern +3 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.In this work, melt electrowriting is used to fabricate a 3D printed scaffold design that generates engineered cardiac tissues with in‐plane contraction, mimicking natural myocardium. It is shown that these tissues display advanced maturation and functionality.
Olalla Iglesias‐García +23 more
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Porcine Stomach Smooth Muscle Force Depends on History-Effects
Frontiers in Physiology, 2017 The stomach serves as food reservoir, mixing organ and absorption area for certain substances, while continually varying its position and size. Large dimensional changes during ingestion and gastric emptying of the stomach are associated with large ...
André Tomalka +3 more
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