mitochondrial DNA and smooth muscle physiology High blood pressure is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the developed world. Two common causes of high blood ...

As a member of the Molecular Cardiac Physiology Group, my lab focuses on the mechanisms that regulate Ca2+ signaling and contraction of vascular smooth muscle. My interests fall into two themes: 1) ...

This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded ... cells that induces relaxation of blood vessel smooth muscle. Ferid Murad, 62 (University of Texas Medical School, Houston ...

The resulting interdisciplinary approach conveys a unified contemporary understanding of nerve and skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle function at the molecular ... who created one of the greatest ...