Interstitial cells: Regulators of smooth muscle function

Physiological Reviews

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 859-907

  Sanders, Kenton M ^a   Ward, Sean M ^a   Koh, Sang Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; BLADDER; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LOSS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DEPOLARIZATION; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EFFECTOR CELL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIAL; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GASTRIC CORPUS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GERM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNALIZATION; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; INTESTINE INNERVATION; INTESTINE RESECTION; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NEOPLASM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPOLARIZATION; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SMALL INTESTINE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; STOMACH; STOMACH ANTRUM; SYNAPSE; SYNCYTIUM; URETER; URETHRA; URINARY TRACT; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENITALIA; HUMANS; INTERSTITIAL CELLS OF CAJAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 84903618652     PISSN: 00319333     EISSN: 15221210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00037.2013     Document Type: Review

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