Lamina muscularis mucosae sitting beneath mucosal surface of the digestive tract has received little attention to date compared with external smooth muscle layers. Motor activity of the muscularis mucosae shows a great regional and species difference. Autonomic innervation profile is also different from esophagus to colon or between animal species. Intracellular transduction mechanisms for moto...

This in vitro study investigated the relationship between rabbit colonic muscularis mucosae motor activity and changes in transmucosal potential difference. Spontaneous muscle contractions and potential difference oscillations occurred independently and were not neurally driven. ACh and histamine directly stimulated the muscularis mucosae, but their mucosal effects were largely indirect, sugges...

1. The muscularis mucosae of the rabbit large intestine shows spontaneous rhythmic contractions with an average frequency of about 11/minute.2. The muscularis mucosae responds to acetylcholine, adrenaline and noradrenaline in a manner similar to that of whole segments of terminal large intestine.3. The muscularis mucosae would seem to have a cholinergic motor innervation.

OBJECTIVE To assess the significance of muscularis mucosae involvement in metastasis of urinary bladder transitional cell carcinoma. MATERIAL AND METHOD This was a retrospective cohort study of superficial urothelial carcinoma (transitional cell carcinoma). Histopathology and patient records of 192 patients were collected from 1990 to 2004. There were 115 males and 77 females, their age range...

Blood from the glandular part of hamster gastric mucosa is drained by collecting venules, running from the subepithelial layer towards lamina muscularis mucosae. To visualise vessels involved in the venous outflow, hamsters were exposed to atropine and subjected to intravital ligation of portal vein, causing strong hyperaemia. Distribution of vessels and their connections were studied a) in tra...

Percy, W. H., J. M. Warren, and J. T. Brunz. Characteristics of the muscularis mucosae in the acid-secreting region of the rabbit stomach. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 39): G1213–G1220, 1999.—It has been suggested that muscularis mucosae excitation may augment gastric acid secretion, implying that this muscle should contract to secretagogues or stimulation of its motor inne...

It has been suggested that muscularis mucosae excitation may augment gastric acid secretion, implying that this muscle should contract to secretagogues or stimulation of its motor innervation. The aim of this study was to characterize in vitro the responses of the muscularis mucosae in the rabbit gastric corpus to substances that modulate acid release and to intrinsic nerve stimulation. Muscula...

We have compared the reactivity to spasmogens of longitudinal muscularis mucosae isolated from the human, guinea pig and rat colon in vitro. The muscularis mucosae isolated from the human distal colon responded with a sustained contractions to carbachol (10 nM-30 microM), in a concentration-dependent manner, and the maximum contraction was comparable to that with high potassium concentration (1...

The purpose of this work was to compare the organisation of the gastric mucosal venous system in larger animals, exemplified by rabbits, with that of the rat and the hamster which we have described previously. Rabbits were given atropine and hexamethonium followed by intravital ligation of all veins draining the stomach, causing strong hyperaemia. The distribution of vessels was studied in the ...

The muscularis mucosae and condensed fibrous layer of the ruminant forestomach were studied by immunohistochemistry using specific antibodies against alpha-smooth muscle actin (alphaSMA) and gamma-smooth muscle actin (gammaSMA). The specimens were collected from the rumen, reticulum and omasum of cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goat, Barbary sheep, Japanese serow, sika deer and mouse deer. The mu...