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Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030.
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Affiliations :
Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030.
Publications dans "Muscles lisses" :
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Affiliations :
Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030.
Current address: Department Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824.
Publications dans "Muscles lisses" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030.
Publications dans "Muscles lisses" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030.
Publications dans "Muscles lisses" :
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Affiliations :
Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030.
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Department of Biomedical Engineering and Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
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Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
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Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030.
Publications dans "Muscles lisses" :
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Affiliations :
Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030.
Publications dans "Muscles lisses" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030.
Publications dans "Muscles lisses" :
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Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030.
Publications dans "Muscles lisses" :
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Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX 78957.
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Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Institute of Cancer Research, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen, China.
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Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
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Model Animal Research Center, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
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Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY 12208, USA.
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Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada.
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Affiliations :
Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada.
Publications dans "Muscles lisses" :
Histological assessment of smooth muscle is a critical step particularly in staging malignant tumors in various internal organs including the urinary bladder. Nonetheless, manual segmentation and clas...
To characterize muscle fibers in the urinary bladder, including muscularis mucosa (MM) and muscularis propria (MP), we assessed 277 histological images from surgical specimens, using two well-known de...
For segmenting MP and non-MP (including MM) regions, MobileNetV2, in the patch-based approach and U-Net, in the pixel-based approach outperformed their peers in the groups with mean Jaccard Index equa...
This work not only creates a benchmark for future development of tools for the histological segmentation of smooth muscle but also provides an effective DL-based diagnostic system for accurate patholo...
The use of respiratory support strategies such as continuous positive airway pressure in premature infants can substantially stretch highly compliant perinatal airways, leading to airway hyperreactivi...
Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are the 2 most common types of nonmelanoma skin tumors. Clinical or histopathological diagnostic challenges are encountered on occasion. CD...
The aim of this study was to describe a novel presentation of conjunctival smooth muscle hamartoma and review the histopathologic findings of this entity....
A 17-year-old African American adolescent boy presented with a pink, nontender lesion of the right bulbar conjunctiva that did not improve with medical management. He had no previous medical or ocular...
Histopathologic examination disclosed morphologically benign smooth muscle bundles within the substantia propria that stained positively for smooth muscle actin, vimentin, and desmin consistent with t...
Although congenital smooth muscle hamartomas of the conjunctiva have been rarely reported in the literature, this is the first described case of a smooth muscle hamartoma presenting in adolescence in ...
The mechanism of action of bronchial thermoplasty (BT) treatment for patients with severe asthma is incompletely understood. This study investigated the 2.5-year impact of BT on airway smooth muscle (...
Micro- and nanoplastic particles, including common forms like polyethylene and polystyrene, have been identified as relevant pollutants, potentially causing health problems in living organisms. The me...
During normal urination, smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in the lower urinary tract (LUT) are exposed to mechanical signals that have a critical impact on tissue structure and function. Nevertheless, the m...
Although nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are commonly associated with neurons in the brain and periphery, recent data indicate that they are also expressed in non-neuronal tissues. We recen...
Atherosclerosis is associated with vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation, chronic vascular inflammation, and leukocyte adhesion. In view of the cardioprotective effects of cannabinoids described i...
Airway inflammation and pro-inflammatory cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) underlie the pathophysiology of respiratory diseases, including asthma. Previously, we showed that TNFα ac...