Excitability in uterine smooth muscle

Frontiers of Hormone Research

Volumn 27, Issue , 2001, Pages 179-200

  Parkington, Helena C ^a   Coleman, Harold A ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MYOMETRIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 0035222841     PISSN: 03013073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000061026     Document Type: Article

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