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We examined how activation of excitatory receptors influences the clock protein PERIOD 2 (PER2) in a contractile organ, the urinary bladder.

There is a series of small valves near the exit from the heart, and several small contractile organs attached to the branchial arteries apparently fulfill the necessary function of assisting the propulsion of blood.

Comparable to filopods of migratory ameboid cells, filopods of mesenchymal cells are contractile organs that probe the microcanalicular system, vascular channels, and other intersticies of an implant of bone matrix [ 13].

This reveals a novel mode of entrainment for peripheral circadian regulation in a contractile visceral organ; it also represents cross talk between the clock and the endogenous receptor-linked pathways.

In contractile visceral organs such as the urinary bladder, where metabolism is not the primary function but contractions via excitatory neurotransmitters are the major physiological role, can the clocks be entrained by receptor activation?

Bioengineering of contractile muscle tissues and organs for disease treatment is currently in the preclinical experimental stage of development.

Perfused heart studies allow the simultaneous measurement of metabolic flux and contractile function in the isolated organ.

Edici was directly administrated into the organ bath and the contractile force was evaluated.

BLAST sequence similarity searches revealed a wide range of diverse functions among the most commonly expressed genes (contigs comprising over 300 individual sequences) (Table 1) reflecting the complex contractile and secretory nature of this organ.

These findings suggest that the overexpression of RhoA and ROCK and the down-expression of ?-actin, MLC, and CPI-17 are closely related with the loss of contractile actin and myosin filament in organ-cultured smooth muscle cells, as shown in the TEM results of the present study (Figure?5G).

As the organ fills with urine, the contractile response of the muscle wall causes a rise in internal pressure.