Microplastics pose a threat to heart health, causing harmful changes in vascular cells and increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases like atherosclerosis.

The human body contains three kinds of muscle tissue: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Only cardiac muscle tissue, comprising cells called myocytes, is present in the heart. In this article ...

In a recent study published in NPJ Microgravity, scientists explore the impact of spaceflight on human vascular smooth muscle cells at the transcriptomic level. Study: Spaceflight effects on human ...

A recent study investigates the role of the deubiquitinase OTUB1 in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) within the context of atherosclerosis, a disease characterized by lipid accumulation and ...

Cardiac muscle cells contract and relax to pump blood around our bodies. Smooth muscle cells make up thin sheets of muscle, such as the stomach lining. Skeletal muscle is joined to bones.

which is formed in the smooth muscle cells of the blood vessels," explains Dr. Moritz Lehners from the University of Tübingen, the first author of the study. cGMP is found in many human organs ...

Study: Vitamin D receptor and its antiproliferative effect in human pulmonary arterial hypertension ... D receptor in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells collected from patients with pulmonary ...