CURRENT BASIC AND PATHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE FUNCTION OF MUSCLE CELLS AND TISSUES – FROM MOLECULES TO HUMANS

CURRENT BASIC AND PATHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE FUNCTION OF MUSCLE CELLS AND TISSUES – FROM MOLECULES TO HUMANS Edited by Haruo Sugi Current Basic and Pathological Approaches to the Function of Muscle Cells and Tissues – From Molecules to Humans http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/3003 Edited by Haruo Sugi Contributors Haruo Sugi, Hiroki Minoda, Takuya Miyakawa, Suguru Tanokura, Shigeru Chaen, Takakazu Kobayashi, Larissa Lipskaia, Isabelle Limon, Regis Bobe, Roger Hajjar, Ricardo Espinosa-Tanguma, Paola Algara-Suárez, Rebeca Mejía-Elizondo, Víctor Saavedra-Alanís, Paul Fransen, Cor E. Van Hove, Johanna van Langen, Hidde Bult, Maoxian Deng, Lixia Deng, Yarong Xue, Marcelo J. Alfonzo, Fabiola Placeres-Uray, Walid Hassan-Soto, Adolfo Borges, Ramona González de Alfonzo, Itala Lippo de Becemberg, Saima Salim, Sharique A. Ali, Shintaro Nakano, Toshihiro Muramatsu, Shigeyuki Nishimura, Takaaki Senbonmatsu, Valérie Metzinger-Le Meuth, Eléonore M`Baya-Moutoula, Fatiha Taibi, Ziad Massy, Laurent Metzinger, Ho-Chang Kuo, Wei-Chiao Chang, Hafidh I. Al-Sadi, J.M. Ramírez, J.J. Salazar, R. de Hoz, B. Rojas, B.I. Gallego, A.I. Ramírez, A. Triviño, Carla Máximo Prado, Edna Aparecida Leick, Fernanda Degobbi Tenório Quirino dos Santos Lopes, Milton A. Martins, Iolanda de Fátima Lopes Calvo Tibério, Sho Shinohara, Satoko Shinohara, Takanori Kihara, Jun Miyake, Angel Vodenicharov, Canan G. Nebigil, Shiro Mizuno, Hirohisa Toga and Takeshi Ishizaki Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Notice Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published chapters. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials, instructions, methods or ideas contained in the book. Publishing Process Manager Sandra Bakic Typesetting InTech Prepress, Novi Sad Cover InTech Design Team First published July, 2012 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechopen.com Current Basic and Pathological Approaches to the Function of Muscle Cells and Tissues – From Molecules to Humans, Edited by Haruo Sugi p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0679-1 Contents Preface IX Section 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Contractile and Regulatory Mechanisms of Contraction in Skeletal, Cardiac and Smooth Muscle Cells 1 The Gas Environmental Chamber as a Powerful Tool to Study Structural Changes of Living Muscle Thick Filaments Coupled with ATP Hydrolysis 3 Haruo Sugi, Hiroki Minoda, Takuya Miyakawa, Suguru Tanokura, Shigeru Chaen and Takakazu Kobayashi Calcium Cycling in Synthetic and Contractile Phasic or Tonic Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells 27 Larissa Lipskaia, Isabelle Limon, Regis Bobeand Roger Hajjar Chapter 3 The Role of Sodium-Calcium Exchanger in the Calcium Homeostasis of Airway Smooth Muscle 45 Ricardo Espinosa-Tanguma, Paola Algara-Suárez, Rebeca Mejía-Elizondo andVíctor Saavedra-Alanís Chapter 4 Contraction by Ca2+ Influx via the L-Type Ca2+ Channel Voltage Window in Mouse Aortic Segments is Modulated by Nitric Oxide 69 Paul Fransen, Cor E. Van Hove, Johanna van Langen and Hidde Bult Chapter 5 MAP Kinase-Mediated and MLCK-Independent Phosphorylation of MLC20 in Smooth Muscle Cells 93 Maoxian Deng, Lixia Deng and Yarong Xue Chapter 6 Two Guanylylcyclases Regulate the Muscarinic Activation of Airway Smooth Muscle 113 Marcelo J. Alfonzo, Fabiola Placeres-Uray, Walid Hassan-Soto, Adolfo Borges, Ramona González de Alfonzo and Itala Lippo de Becemberg Chapter 7 Melanophores: Smooth Muscle Cells in Disguise 133 Saima Salim and Sharique A. Ali ... - tailieumienphi.vn