Overview
- Detailed, up-to-date information on smooth muscle function
- Systematically organized by body systems and organs
- Explanation of commonalities and differences between organs
- Clarification of the role of smooth muscle in disease
- Exploration of contractile mechanisms as therapeutic targets
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1124)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Gastrointestinal Tract
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Urinary Tract
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Reproductive Organs
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About this book
This book presents the commonality and heterogeneity of the mechanisms underlying smooth muscle spontaneous activity in various smooth muscle organs and in addition discusses their malfunctions in disease and their potential as novel therapeutic targets. To facilitate understanding, the volume is divided into five parts and covers 16 organs: airways, gastrointestinal tract (phasic muscle, tonic muscle), renal pelvis, ureter, urinary bladder, urethra, corporal tissue, prostate, uterus, oviducts, seminal vesicle, artery, vein, microvasculature, and lymphatic vessels. This structure will help readers to comprehend the most up-to-date information on the similarities and differences in the contractile mechanisms driving various smooth muscles as well as their potential manipulations in particular visceral organ pathologies. The vast advancements in gene, electrical recording, and imaging technologies in this field are also discussed, with review of past achievements and consideration oflikely future developments. This book will be of worldwide interest to clinicians, students, and researchers alike.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Richard Lang received his PhD at Monash University in 1979. He was an MRC Research Officer and Fellow at St George’s Hospital Medical School, London. He returned to Monash University as a Research Fellow and has continued as a Senior Research Fellow. Throughout, he has been interested in the role membrane ion channels and calcium play in pacemaker and tone generation in both gastrointestinal and urogenital organs.
Hikaru Hashitani and Richard Lang have collaborated for over 20 years, exchanging a number of graduate students for short term visits and one PhD graduate on a JSPS Fellowship. Over this time, we have together published 20 papers and numerous conference abstracts on the electrical and calcium signalling properties of the renal pelvis, urethra and prostate. This collaboration is a continuation of a long-held tradition of international collaboration between British, Japanese and Australian smooth muscle researchers that originated by our mentors in Oxford University in the 1960s.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Smooth Muscle Spontaneous Activity
Book Subtitle: Physiological and Pathological Modulation
Editors: Hikaru Hashitani, Richard J. Lang
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5895-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5894-4Published: 24 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-5895-1Published: 10 June 2019
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 427
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Physiology, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Neurosciences