Cervical collagen and biomechanical strength in non-pregnant women with a history of cervical insufficiency

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Oxlund, Birgitte S ^a   Ørtoft, Gitte ^a   Brüel, Annemarie ^b   Danielsen, Carl C ^b   Oxlund, Hans ^b   Uldbjerg, Niels ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; HYDROXYPROLINE; COLLAGEN;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL DENSITY; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PUNCH BIOPSY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TENSILE STRENGTH; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX INCOMPETENCE; ADULT; BIOPSY; CELL POLARITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPSY; CELL POLARITY; CERVIX UTERI; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UTERINE CERVICAL INCOMPETENCE;

EID: 77955081758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-8-92     Document Type: Article

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