Smooth muscle
Smooth muscle is an involuntary non-striated muscle. It is divided into two sub-groups; the single-unit (unitary) and multiunit smooth muscle. Smooth muscle is found within the walls of blood vessels. Smooth muscle is also found in lymphatic vessels, the urinary bladder, uterus, male and female reproductive tracts, gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, arrector pili of skin, and other places.
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What is the definition or description of: smooth muscle?
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What is smooth muscle antibody?
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A 38-year old asked:
What would happen if theres too much smooth muscle in bronchi?
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A 19-year old female asked:
Why nitrate drugs only use for vescle smooth muscle ? And they do not use for other human's body smooth muscle such as geastrointestinal?
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Does smooth muscle still work if we have a head injury?
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A 29-year old asked:
What conditions cause contraction of bronchiole smooth muscle?
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What are bronchial smooth muscle contractions?
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Smooth muscle antibodies, is that a ANA test or are they different tests?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Why is there a need for immunohistochemistry: smooth muscle actin after i got the diagnosis: cellular spindle cell lesion favor nodular fascitis?
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A 59-year old male asked:
1. What percentage of the time does cidp or gb present without significant associated muscle weakness. 2. How can cidp or gb effect smooth muscle. ?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Can pregabalin relax smooth muscle, such as the urethral sphincter?
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A 24-year old male asked:
My ASMA smooth muscle antibodie report is 1:40 but their is negative mentioned on lab report and Google says 1:40 is positive how that is?
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A 43-year old asked:
Is an orgasm an involuntary muscle contraction of the smooth muscle tissue?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Is concerta less likely going to cause smooth muscle contraction than ritalin (methylphenidate)?
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A 36-year old asked:
What is a smooth muscle ab blood test and a titer test for, and what does it mean if they're positive?
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A 32-year old female asked:
I have mctd (+ana, rnp). Recent test when i was unwell + anti ro, sm/rnp, anti smooth muscle, antichromatin-low titres of most. What does all this mean? Is my disease progressive? I am terrified.
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A 36-year old asked:
What causes smooth muscle contraction and possibly premature labor?
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A male asked:
High res meno 1. Severe dysfunction of the smooth muscle esoph.2. No hiatal hernia, hypotensive les with normal relaxation.?Explain above cure?
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A 28-year old female asked:
I have frequent stomach pains. Like a spasm or cramping. Smooth muscle relaxants help but only temporarily.The pain is incapacitating, what can I do?
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A 23-year old male asked:
If Tamsulosin permanently affects alpha 1a receptors in the iris, why does everyone say that its effects on alpha 1a receptors in the smooth muscle of the urinary tract discontinue once you stop taking it?
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A 37-year old female asked:
Ct colonography report states diverticulosis particularly in the sigmoid with associated smooth muscle hypertrophy. What is smooth muscle hypertrophy?
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A 38-year old female asked:
What would cause a high positive ANA (1:640) speckled, nucleolar with a low positive smooth muscle antibody (1:40) but negative SS-A, SS-B, anti-Smith, RNP, SCL-70, Anti Jo antibodies? Liver disease?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Non selective beta blockers blocks beta 2 receptors which may causes smooth muscle contraction which may lead to pulmonary vascular resistance so if someone takes them for long time do they fall under risk for pulmonary hypertension?
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A 47-year old asked:
What is the mechanism by which smooth, skelatol and cardiac muscle twitch?
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A 44-year old male asked:
Mucocele left sphenoethmoidal recess causing mild smooth compression upon inferior and medial recti muscles?
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A 50-year old asked:
What is the name of the smooth muscular structure that courses obliquely and medially superficial to the psoas muscles?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Left thigh muscle feels bumpy, right feels smooth. Had negative ultrasound last year. What could this be?
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A 30-year old female asked:
Hi, my mastodis process seems asymmetrical. One on the left is more prominent and not as smooth as a other one. It does not hurt and it has no lumps, just feel to touch like it has more bumps. Also my scm muscle is tight could all this be linked?
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A 23-year old male asked:
My muscle shake whenever I use them slowly. Instead of smooth movements, I feel them almost pulse with contractions and releases. I have been to a neuro and I got cleared, but it's still annoying. I am very out of shape, could it just be due to that?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Random muscle twitches all over my body for a few weeks, muscle movements aren't smooth when moved, worried it could be als? I'm 24
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