1. [Smooth muscle cells of the blood vessels and internal organs of the vertebrates in normal and pathologic states].
- Author
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Karfman OIa
- Subjects
- Animals, Blood Vessels cytology, Blood Vessels ultrastructure, Cell Nucleus ultrastructure, Cytoplasm ultrastructure, Humans, Lipid Metabolism, Microscopy, Electron, Mucoproteins metabolism, Muscle Contraction, Muscle, Smooth pathology, Muscle, Smooth ultrastructure, Necrosis pathology, Staining and Labeling, Vascular Diseases metabolism, Vascular Diseases pathology, Vertebrates, Muscle, Smooth cytology
- Abstract
The article presents a review of present day literature data on the structure of the smooth-muscle cells of vertebrates in the norm and pathology. The smooth-muscle cells of blood vessels and internal organs of vertebrates possess a contractile apparatus the same as in striated muscle and are characterized by two main functions: contractile and synthetical. The latter manifests itself in the capability of the muscle cells to synthesize all the components of the interstitial matter. General pathology of the smooth muscle includes disorders of ultracirculation, metabolic disturbances, necrobiotic changes and necrosis of the muscle cells, compensatory-adaptive processes predominantly of the type of hyperplastic-hypertrophic reaction and regeneration.
- Published
- 1975