The inner part is the ciliary muscle, made of smooth muscle. Smooth muscles contract and relax automatically, so you don’t have conscious control over them. Instead, the ciliary body functions in ...

Electropuncture: This method aims to stimulate the somato-vegetative functions of the body reflexively by applying ...

Cilia loss and impaired motile ciliary functions are common in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP). IL-17A and IL-22, key cytokines in type 3 inflammation, affect epithelial cell ...

Figure Credit: Shahram Eisa-Beygi, PhD. Former member of Ramchandran Lab. Based on the observation that cilia disassemble upon high flow, our group hypothesized that if cilia are disassembled, then ...

Since the pivotal discovery of Calcium as the only ion able to produce muscle contraction by Lewis Victor Heilbrunn in 1947, several generations of scientists have sought to understand how this ...

Abdominal muscle strains usually resolve with at-home care. A mild strain should heal in a week or two, but more severe strains can take several months. If the pain is severe, impacts your ability to ...

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1 In addition to this new candidate, Dr Karine Bigot, Head Pharmacology & Toxicology at PulseSight presented a poster demonstrating the safety of PST-611, administered to the ciliary muscle using a ...