Inflammatory aetiology of human myometrial activation tested using directed graphs

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 0132-0136

  Bisits, Andrew M ^a   Smith, Roger ^a   Mesiano, Sam ^b   Yeo, George ^c   Kwek, Kenneth ^c   MacIntyre, David ^a   Chan, E Cheng ^a  

^a JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^c KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

HUMAN MYOMETRIUM; HUMAN UTERUS; INFLAMMATORY STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL-COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROGESTERON; QUANTITATIVE RT-PCR; RECEPTOR ACTIVATION; SAMPLE FORM; SOFTWARE PROJECT; STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS;

DIRECTED GRAPHS;

EID: 33845575535     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010019     Document Type: Article

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