contractile
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Their earlier work had shown that small contractile cells called pericytes tighten coronary capillaries during the early stages of ischemia, a condition that occurs when the heart muscle is deprived of oxygen-rich blood.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026
The research team found that some of the proteins in the muscle cells act as a temperature sensor, and that heating affects skeletal and cardiac contractile systems differently.
From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2023
Furthermore, declaring a single, electrically active and contractile organ, or the contractile cells it comes from, the stand-alone determinant of personhood is simply not valid.
From Scientific American • Jan. 23, 2023
Muscle is contractile tissue and is derived from the mesodermal layer of embryonic germ cells.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Under such circumstances this state of the heart is attributable in great measure to the complication which has weakened its contractile power.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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