"Muscle, Smooth" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Unstriated and unstriped muscle, one of the muscles of the internal organs, blood vessels, hair follicles, etc. Contractile elements are elongated, usually spindle-shaped cells with centrally located nuclei. Smooth muscle fibers are bound together into sheets or bundles by reticular fibers and frequently elastic nets are also abundant. (From Stedman, 25th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D009130
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.633.570 A10.690.467
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| Concept/Terms |
Muscle, Smooth- Muscle, Smooth
- Muscles, Smooth
- Smooth Muscles
- Muscle, Involuntary
- Involuntary Muscle
- Involuntary Muscles
- Muscles, Involuntary
- Smooth Muscle
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Muscle, Smooth" by people in this website by year, and whether "Muscle, Smooth" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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| 2000 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2001 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2002 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2003 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2004 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Muscle, Smooth" by people in Profiles.
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Activated intestinal muscle cells promote preadipocyte migration: a novel mechanism for creeping fat formation in Crohn's disease. Gut. 2022 01; 71(1):55-67.
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Cleavage factor 25 deregulation contributes to pulmonary fibrosis through alternative polyadenylation. J Clin Invest. 2019 05 01; 129(5):1984-1999.
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Comprehensive Molecular Characterization of Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer. Cell. 2017 Oct 19; 171(3):540-556.e25.
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Beneficial Effects of Prebiotic Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mannan on Allergic Asthma Mouse Models. J Immunol Res. 2017; 2017:3432701.
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Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Extravesical Ureteral Reimplantation in Children: Top-Down Suturing Technique Without Stent Placement. J Endourol. 2015 Aug; 29(8):864-6.
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Progressive loss of myogenic differentiation in leiomyosarcoma has prognostic value. Histopathology. 2015 Apr; 66(5):627-38.
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Heterozygous de novo and inherited mutations in the smooth muscle actin (ACTG2) gene underlie megacystis-microcolon-intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome. PLoS Genet. 2014 Mar; 10(3):e1004258.
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Urinary bladder cancer: role of MR imaging. Radiographics. 2012 Mar-Apr; 32(2):371-87.
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MR imaging for preoperative evaluation of primary rectal cancer: practical considerations. Radiographics. 2012 Mar-Apr; 32(2):389-409.
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Cryptorchidism in mice with an androgen receptor ablation in gubernaculum testis. Mol Endocrinol. 2012 Apr; 26(4):598-607.