Mechanisms of relaxin-mediated premature birth

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1041, Issue , 2005, Pages 345-350

  Weiss, Gerson ^a   Goldsmith, Laura T ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervix; Pregnancy; Preterm birth; Relaxin; Rhesus monkey; Uterus

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; RELAXIN; STROMELYSIN; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS LUTEUM; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MACROPHAGE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 23644449738     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1282.055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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