contractile cell

This is what happens in 99% of cardiac cells which are contractile cells.

As contractile cells, they can open or close a given amount to allow (or disallow) certain sized particles to flow through the vessel.

The toxin blocks the fast Na+ current in human myocytes (the contractile cells of the muscles), thereby inhibiting their contraction.

Pericytes are contractile cells that wrap around the endothelial cells of capillaries and venules throughout the body.

Since the anemone lacks a skeleton, the contractile cells pull against the gastrovascular cavity, which acts as a hydrostatic skeleton.

He was the first to discover the branching contractile cells on the external wall of the capillaries in amphibians, which are now known as "Rouget's cells".

The pupillary dilator consists of a spokelike arrangement of modified contractile cells called myoepithelial cells.

Most vessels of the microcirculation are lined by flattened cells, the endothelium and many are surrounded by contractile cells the smooth muscle or pericytes.

They resemble actin filaments found in other contractile cells such as muscle, and platelet actin has a 100-fold excess over platelet myosin (Pollard, 1975).

Muscles have evolved at least twice, once in cnidaria and once in bilateria; they seem to have evolved from contractile cells in sponge-grade organisms.

Microvascular pericytes may not be contractile cells because they lack alpha-actin isoforms; structures that are common amongst other contractile cells.

Apelin receptor is early expressed during the embryonic formation of the heart, where it regulates the migration of cell progenitors fated to differentiate in the contractile cells, the cardiomyocytes.

Contractile cells in each tentacle drag the prey into range of the digestive polyps, the gastrozooids, which surround and digest the food by secreting enzymes that break down proteins, carbohydrates and fats.