Ultrastructure of Smooth Muscle

'... recommend this overview not only for researchers in the field, but also for graduate students in medical and veterinary colleges.' Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 197, 1990

• 1. General aspects of the fine structure of smooth muscles.- 2. Ultrastructure, cytochemistry, and organization of myofilaments in vertebrate smooth muscle cells.- 3. The three-dimensional ultrastructure of intracellular organization of smooth muscle cells by scanning electron microscopy.- 4. Ultrastructure of smooth muscle cells in culture.- 5. Smooth muscle cell characteristics: a computer-assisted analysis from serial sections, by M.E. Todd.- 6. Morphology of smooth muscle and its diversity as studied with scanning electron microscopy.- 7. Smooth muscle in the gut and airways.- 8. Ultrastructure of smooth muscle cells in the urinary system.- 9. Smooth muscle in the male genital tract.- 10. Ultrastructure of smooth muscle tissue in the female reproductive tract: uterus and oviduct.- 11. The smooth muscle cells in the ovary.- 12. Morphology of vascular smooth muscle fibers and pericytes: scanning electron microscopic studies.