Functional and histochemical characterization of a uterine adrenergic denervation process in pregnant rats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1013-1017

  Klukovits, Anna ^a   Gáspár, Róbert ^a   Sántha, Péter ^a   Jancsó, Gábor ^a   Falkay, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Catecholamines; Female reproductive tract; Implantation; Pregnancy; Uterus

Indexed keywords

OXIDOPAMINE;

ADRENERGIC NERVE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MYOMETRIUM; NERVE DEGENERATION; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOMETRIUM; NERVE DEGENERATION; OXIDOPAMINE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; UTERINE CONTRACTION; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036721361     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.101.002287     Document Type: Article

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