Smooth Muscle

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
SM
Pronunciation
/smuð ˈməsəl/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology

Examples in Context

  1. Mesenchymal alterations include thickening of the basal lamina, smooth muscle hyperplasia, fibrosis and inflammatory cell accumulation.
  2. It can also inhibit vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation, promote apoptosis, and improve vascular remodeling.
  3. This is the main mechanism for NO to inhibit the hyperplasia of smooth muscle cells.
  4. Specialized aggregates of smooth muscle cells found between arterioles and venules are called glomus bodies.
  5. Aim to investigate the effect of senna extract on contraction of colonic smooth muscle cells of guinea pig.

Other meanings of SM