Is knowledge of the pattern of electrical activity in the pregnant uterus helpful to our understanding of uterine function? Focus on "Patterns of electrical propagation in the intact pregnant guinea pig uterus" by Lammers et al.

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Garfield, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GUINEA PIG; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; UTERUS; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; UTERUS CONTRACTION; UTERUS FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; UTERINE CONTRACTION; UTERUS;

EID: 40449136692     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00857.2007     Document Type: Editorial

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