Bronchial Thermoplasty: A New Treatment for Severe Asthma

Dr. Gerard Silvestri, a pulmonologist at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), discusses bronchial thermoplasty (BT), a new treatment for patients with severe asthma now available at MUSC. In BT, the smooth muscle that tends to build up and become hyperresponisve in patients with severe asthma is reduced through controlled bursts of thermal energy. Read more about BT in the January 2013 issue of Progress Notes at MUSChealth.com/progressnotes.

Smooth muscle overview

Jennifer Mansfield-Jones
This introduction to smooth muscle tissue describes its key features, its general use in the human body, and some of its differences from other muscle types.

Pharmacology : Pharmacological Lab Procedures - Maintenance of an Isolated Smooth Muscle Preparation

This video "Pharmacological Lab Procedures: Maintenance of an Isolated Smooth Muscle Preparation in Vitro: No Oxygen to the Tissue" is part of a multimedia-based module by George Koffour, Samuel Owusu Agyeman-Duah, Benjamin Prempeh, and Ella Kasanga. This module contains a series of demonstration videos on how to do isolated smooth muscle preparation in vitro using the Harvard Kymograph simulator. The complete learning module is available through the African Health OER Network at: http://www.oer

Muscles, Muscles Everywhere

This activity helps students learn about the three different types of muscles and how outer space affects astronauts’ muscles. They will discover how important it is for astronauts to get adequate exercise both on Earth and in outer space. Also, through the design of their own microgravity exercise machine, students learn about the exercise machines that engineers design specifically for astronaut use.

Introduction to muscle

As taught Semesters 1 and 2, 2011 This learning object identifies characteristics common to all muscle cells, and introduces skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle. This learning object is used as part of the level 1 Biological Sciences module delivered by the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy. Dr Andy Meal, Lecturer in Biological Sciences, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy

Smooth muscle

As taught Semesters 1 and 2, 2011 This learning object describes the structure and function of smooth muscle. The learning object is used as part of the level 1 Biological Sciences module delieverd by the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy. Dr Andy Meal, Lecturer in Biological Sciences, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy

Exploring the Biochemical and Mechanical Effects of Intestinal Edema on Smooth Muscle Cell Contracti

Muhammad Shamim
This study was done at the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University in the summer of 2011 under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Young as part of the VIGRE Program.

Maintenance of an Isolated Smooth Muscle Preparation in Vitro

This module contains a series of demonstration videos on how to do isolated smooth muscle preparation in vitro using the Harvard Kymograph simulator.

Maintenance of an Isolated Smooth Muscle Preparation in Vitro

This module contains a series of demonstration videos on how to do isolated smooth muscle preparation in vitro using the Harvard Kymograph simulator.

Muscular System

The muscular system includes all the muscles in an organism's body and allows organisms to move. A lot of the muscles in the muscular system of vertebrates are controlled by the nervous system. There are three types of muscle tissue. Skeletal (also known as striated) muscle provides body movement. Smooth muscles control automatic functions like breathing. Cardiac muscles make up the heart and allow it to pump blood through the circulatory system.

Intimal Thickening - A Response to Vascular Injury

This animation is a derivative work based on illustration and description of intimal thickening following vascular injury described in the book "Robbins Pathologic Bases of the Disease" by Cotran, Kumar and Collins (1999). It depicts the migration and proliferation of smooth muscle cells and elaboration of extracellular matrix leading to intimal thickening following vascular injury.

Intimal Thickening - A Response to Vascular Injury

Muscular System

Use of the Rabbit Intestine in Smooth Muscle Pharmacology Experiments: A New Approach

This exercise is suitable for general physiology or zoology teaching laboratories.

Maintenance of an Isolated Smooth Muscle Preparation in Vitro

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This module contains a series of demonstration videos on how to do isolated smooth muscle preparation in vitro using the Harvard Kymograph simulator.
This series is complementary to the video

Use of the Rabbit Intestine in Smooth Muscle Pharmacology Experiments: A New Approach

This exercise is suitable for general physiology or zoology teaching laboratories.

Blood vessel anatomy

This topic begins with a brief introduction to the vascular system and its components (arteries, veins and capillaries). An overall schematic diagram illustrates the position of the components in relation to the heart. Layers of the components are described in more detail (e.g. collagen fibres; smooth muscles) and are accompanied by diagrams. The control of blood flow is described; emphasis is on spincters and shunt vessels.

Histology, smooth muscle ls? x10, (direct/above view)

Histology, smooth muscle ls? x10, (direct/above view). Rat dissection stills taken from FARID (Functional Anatomy of the Rat [Interactive Dissection]). This resource was authored by Megan Quentin-Baxter and David Dewhurst, with Graham Irving and Stephen Mera at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Histology, smooth muscle ls? x40, (direct/above view)

Histology, smooth muscle ls? x40, (direct/above view). Rat dissection stills taken from FARID (Functional Anatomy of the Rat [Interactive Dissection]). This resource was authored by Megan Quentin-Baxter and David Dewhurst, with Graham Irving and Stephen Mera at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Walk, Run, Jump!

In this activity, students participate in a series of timed relay races using their skeletal muscles. The compare the movement of skeletal muscle and relate how engineers help astronauts exercise skeletal muscles in space.

Muscles, Muscles Everywhere

Excitation-Contraction Coupling -- So What's the Difference Between Striated and Smooth Muscle?

This module illustrates, primarily through animation, the phenomenon of excitation-contraction coupling of muscle in a step by step manner. Striated and smooth muscle are both shown. Entry to the module is via the html "Intro" file.

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Bronchial Thermoplasty: A New Treatment for Severe Asthma

Smooth muscle overview

Pharmacology : Pharmacological Lab Procedures - Maintenance of an Isolated Smooth Muscle Preparation

Muscles, Muscles Everywhere

Introduction to muscle

Smooth muscle

Exploring the Biochemical and Mechanical Effects of Intestinal Edema on Smooth Muscle Cell Contracti

Maintenance of an Isolated Smooth Muscle Preparation in Vitro

Maintenance of an Isolated Smooth Muscle Preparation in Vitro

Muscular System

Intimal Thickening - A Response to Vascular Injury

Intimal Thickening - A Response to Vascular Injury

Muscular System

Use of the Rabbit Intestine in Smooth Muscle Pharmacology Experiments: A New Approach

Maintenance of an Isolated Smooth Muscle Preparation in Vitro

Use of the Rabbit Intestine in Smooth Muscle Pharmacology Experiments: A New Approach

Blood vessel anatomy

Histology, smooth muscle ls? x10, (direct/above view)

Histology, smooth muscle ls? x40, (direct/above view)

Walk, Run, Jump!

Muscles, Muscles Everywhere

Excitation-Contraction Coupling -- So What's the Difference Between Striated and Smooth Muscle?