Chronic airway disorders such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are fundamentally driven by dysregulated airway smooth muscle (ASM) contraction, proliferation and inflammation.

RUDN University scientists have discovered that in weightlessness, the contractile activity of smooth muscles in the hollow organs of the gastrointestinal tract is disrupted. New data must be taken ...

Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide. A major form of it is coronary artery disease, which ...

Using whole genome sequencing, researchers identified a single variant in a microRNA gene, MIR145-5p, as the source of multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome, which had gone undiagnosed in a ...