Cellular communication among smooth muscle cells: The role of membrane potential via connexins

C Xiao, Y Sun, H Huang, X Yue, Z Song, T David… - Journal of theoretical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Communication via action potentials among neurons has been extensively studied.
However, effective communication without action potentials is ubiquitous in biological …

Coronary smooth muscle cell calcium dynamics: Effects of bifurcation angle on atheroprone conditions

S Dowding, C Zakkaroff, S Moore, T David - Frontiers in physiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
This work investigates the effect of arterial bifurcation angulation on atherosclerosis
development through in-silico simulations of coupled cell dynamics. The computational …

Multiscale Model for Ion Transport in Cellular Media and Applications in Smooth Muscle Cells

C Xiao, Y Sun, H Huang, Z Song, X Yue, T David, S Xu - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Ion transport in biological tissues is crucial in the study of many biological and pathological
problems. Some multi-cellular structures, like the smooth muscles on vessel walls, can be …