Coordination of myometrial contractility

Frontiers of Hormone Research

Volumn 27, Issue , 2001, Pages 201-215

  Young, Roger ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR; METABOLISM; MYOMETRIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 0035230077     PISSN: 03013073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000061027     Document Type: Article

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