Regulation of human myometrial contractility during pregnancy and labour: Are calcium homeostatic pathways important?

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 247-254

  Tribe, R M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; ESTRIOL; ESTROGEN; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; RYANODINE; RYANODINE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CALCIUM MOBILIZATION; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LABOR; LABOR INDUCTION; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROSTAGLANDIN RELEASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

EID: 0035065817     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/eph8602180     Document Type: Article

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