Guinea-pig interpubic joint (symphysis pubica) relaxation at parturition: Underlying cellular processes that resemble an inflammatory response

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Rodríguez, Horacio A ^a   Ortega, Hugo H ^a   Ramos, Jorge G ^a   Muñoz de Toro, Mónica ^a   Luque, Enrique H ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ESTRADIOL; PARAFFIN; PROGESTERONE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL TYPE; CHILDBIRTH; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; GIEMSA STAIN; GUINEA PIG; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOASSAY; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; PUERPERIUM; SAFETY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TISSUE SECTION; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VASCULARIZATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BREEDING; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; LIGAMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLIABILITY; PREGNANCY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CERVICAL RIPENING; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; COLLAGEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; INFLAMMATION; LIGAMENTS; PLIABILITY; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; PUBIC SYMPHYSIS;

EID: 4344696701     PISSN: 14777827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-1-113     Document Type: Article

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