Role of Capsaicin-Sensitive Nerve Fibers in Uterine Contractility in the Rat

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 184-190

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Female reproductive tract; Neuropeptides; Pregnancy; Uterus

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CAPSAICIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; INNERVATION; MYOMETRIUM; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; UTERUS RELAXATION;

ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CAPSAICIN; DENERVATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UTERINE CONTRACTION; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0346724564     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.017699     Document Type: Article

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