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Effects of Ageing upon Airways Smooth Muscle Contractility

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Airways Smooth Muscle: Development, and Regulation of Contractility

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Airways smooth muscle contractility changes over the course of life. In general, airway responses to stimulatory agents are greatest in infants and children and decline progressively thereafter. Although our understanding of the numerous factors that control airways smooth muscle tone in the adult has advanced considerably in the last decade, very little is understood about the way these factors may vary with ageing.

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Wills-Karp, M. (1994). Effects of Ageing upon Airways Smooth Muscle Contractility. In: Raeburn, D., Giembycz, M.A. (eds) Airways Smooth Muscle: Development, and Regulation of Contractility. Respiratory Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7408-3_7

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