The Effects of Immune Cells and Inflammation On Smooth Muscle and Enteric Nerves

Snape/, Jr./, William J.; Collins/, Stephen M.

Preface (Stephen M. Collins, William J. Snape, Jr.). Acute and Chronic Inflammation (Jack Gauldie). Healing and Repair (Robert Riddell). Cholesterol Feeding and Gallbladder Muscle Contractility (Norman Weisbrodt, Young Fang Li, Frank G. Moody, Diane Haley-Russell, Stuart I. Myers). Inflammation Alters Smooth Muscle Function in the Gut: Studies on the Nematode-Infected Rat (Stephen M. Collins, D.L. Vermillion, J.D. Huizinga, M.J. Muller). Specific Effect of Infection and Malnutrition on Intestinal Longitudinal Smooth Muscle Response in Yersinia Enterocolitica in the Rabbit (Brent Scott). In-Vivo Colonic Motility and Transit in Ulcerative Colitis (S. Narasimha Reddy, Gabriele Bazzocchi, Simon Chan, Kathy Akashi, Javier Villanueva-Meyer, George Yanni, Ismael Mena, William J. Snape, Jr.). Effect of Mucosal Inflammation on Colonic Smooth Muscle Contraction. (Y.N. Xie, W. Gerthoffer, S.N. Reddy, V.E. Eysselein, F. Cominelli, W.J. Snape, Jr.). In Vivo Motor Response to Gut Inflammation (Sushil K. Sarna, Mary F. Otterson, Verne E. Cowles, Ashwani K. Sethi, Gordon L. Telford). An Investigation In Vitro of the Properties of the Individual Muscle Layers of the Rabbit Colon in an Induced Colitis (W.H. Percy, M.B. Burton, Y. Jacobowitx, R. Burakoff). Smooth Muscle Function in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Jan D. Huizinga, Dianne L. Vermillion, Carla Cuthbert, Stephen M. Collins). Collagen Production by the Intestinal Smooth Muscle Cell in Response to Inflammation: Wound Healing in the Gut (Martin P. Graham). Smooth Muscle Growth in the Inflamed Intestine of the Rat (M.G. Blennerhassett, S.M. Collins). Ultrastructure of Human Gastrointestinal System. Interactions Among Mast Cells, Eosinophils, Nerves and Muscle in Human Disease (Ann M. Dvorak). Gut Neuropeptides and the Pathophysiology of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (Timothy R. Koch, Ammon Sonnenberg, J. Aidan Carney). Immunomodulation of Electrical and Synaptic Behavior of Myenteric Neurons of Guinea Pig Small Intestine During Inf