Timing of the switch from myometrial contractures to contractions in late-gestation pregnant rhesus monkeys as recorded by myometrial electromyogram during spontaneous term and androstenedione-induced labor

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 557-562

  Farber, Daniel M ^a   Giussani, Dino A ^a   Jenkins, Susan L ^a   Mecenas, Charles A ^a   Winter, James A ^a   Wentworth, R A ^a   Nathanielsz, Peter W ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; LABOR INDUCTION; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LABOR, INDUCED; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MACACA MULATTA; MYOMETRIUM; PHOTOPERIOD; PREGNANCY; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 0031043725     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.2.557     Document Type: Article

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