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• Developmental aspects and models to study smooth muscle differentiation  
  Pierre Thiébaud and Nadine Thézé

    1

• The effect of mechanical plasticity and adaptation on sensitized airway smooth muscle contractility  
  Stephens NL, Jiang H, Cheng Z-Q and Fust A

    23

• Vascular and bronchial organ culture models  
  Christelle Guibert, Caroline Morin and Éric Rousseau

    39

• Excitation-contraction coupling and signalling in smooth muscle  
  Luke J. Janssen, Irem Mueed, Jeremy Hirota, M. Nabeel Ghayur, M. Afzal Khan, Simon Hirota, Peter Helli and Jeremy Hernandez

    57

• Voltage-gated calcium channels in vascular smooth muscle  
  Sylvain Richard, Anne Virsolvy, Aurélie Fort and Magali Cordaillat

    85

• Receptor- and store-operated channels in smooth muscle  
  C. Guibert and J.P. Savineau

    107

• Ca2+ releasing channels of the smooth muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum  
  Jean-Luc Morel, Nicolas Fritz, Fabrice Dabertrand and Nathalie Macrez

    131

• Role of cyclic ADP-ribose in calcium signaling in smooth muscle  
  Joseph A. Jude, Timothy F. Walseth and Mathur S. Kannan

    151

• Potassium channels in vascular smooth muscle: Structure, function and experimental interventions  
  Biny K. Joseph, Sung W. Rhee, Dinesh K. Hirenallur and Nancy J. Rusch

    173

• Pivotal contribution of potassium channels in endothelium-dependent responses1) Endothelium-dependent contractions  
  Michel Félétou and Paul M. Vanhoutte

    195

• Pivotal contribution of potassium channels in endothelium-dependent responses2) endothelium-dependent relaxations  
  Michel Félétou and Paul M. Vanhoutte

    223

• Rho kinase signaling pathway in smooth muscle  
  Pierre Pacaud and Gervaise Loirand

    251

• Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) superfamily and smooth muscle signaling  
  Thérèse Keravis and Claire Lugnier

    269

• EETs and 20-HETE modulate smooth muscle reactivity and other metabolic processes  
  Eric Rousseau, Caroline Morin, Catherine Hallé, Virginie Monet-Boucher and Colombe Otis

    291

• Smooth muscle cell contraction: Myogenic tone, a property of resistance arteries  
  Laurent Loufrani and Daniel Henrion

    309

• Pathophysiological roles of beta-adrenoceptors in the control of vascular tone  
  Bertrand Rozec, Véronique Leblais and Chantal Gauthier

    321

• Effects of acute hypoxia in vascular smooth muscle  
  Gregory A. Knock and Jeremy P.T. Ward

    349

• Reactive oxygen species in hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction and pulmonary arterial hypertension  
  Bernard Muller, Fabrice Pourageaud and Véronique Leblais

    367

• Tachykinins and smooth muscle function  
  M. Luz Candenas, Jocelyn N. Pennefather, Karen Kerr, Natalia Pérez-Hernández and Francisco M. Pinto

    383

• Expression and function of Toll-like receptors in smooth muscle cells  
  Maria B. Sukkar and Kian Fan Chung

    411

• Altered transcription factors in airway smooth muscle  
  Michael Roth and Judith Black

    431

• Interaction between mast cells and bronchial smooth muscle cells  
  Patrick Berger and J. Manuel Tunon de Lara

    457

• Implication of smooth muscle in airways hyperresponsiveness: Studies through different experimental studies  
  Esteban J. Morcillo, María J. Sanz and Julio Cortijo

    465

• Neurohormonal regulation of digestive smooth muscles  
  Richard Magous, Claire Jarrousse and Jean-Pierre Bali

    485

• Cellular ionic mechanisms controlling uterine smooth muscle contraction: Effects of gestational state  
  Michael J. Taggart and Rachel M. Tribe

    523

• Electrical control of and assessment of uterine contractility  
  Robert E. Garfield, Shao-Qing Shi and William L. Maner

    551