Control of uterine Ca2+ by membrane voltage: Toward understanding the excitation-contraction coupling in human myometrium

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1101, Issue , 2007, Pages 97-109

  Shmygol, Anatoly ^a   Blanks, Andrew M ^a   Bru Mercier, Gilles ^a   Gullam, Joanna E ^a   Thornton, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action potential; Calcium; E c coupling; Ion channels; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (CALCIUM); CALCIUM ION; ION CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CHILDBIRTH; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOPLASM; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MYOMETRIUM; PACEMAKER; PREGNANCY; REPOLARIZATION; UTERUS; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; UTERUS CONTRACTION; ANIMAL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYOMETRIUM; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 34250621821     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1389.031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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