arteriole
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They also reduced heart muscle growth and scaring while prompting arteriole formation and growth.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
This is a modified, smooth muscle cell lining the afferent arteriole that can contract or relax in response to ATP or adenosine released by the macula densa.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Decreased blood pressure is also sensed by the granular cells in the afferent arteriole of the JGA.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
When blood pressure increases, smooth muscle cells in the wall of the arteriole are stretched and respond by contracting to resist the pressure, resulting in little change in flow.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Such a deposition of layer upon layer of cells in an arteriole and the resulting fibrosis leads to the condition of disappearance of the lumen of the vessel, endarteritis obliterans.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
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Human Anatomy and Physiology - High School
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