Transection of the pelvic or vagus nerve forestalls ripening of the cervix and delays birth in rats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 587-594

  Clyde, Lindsey A ^a   Lechuga, Thomas J ^a   Ebner, Charlotte A ^a   Burns, Alexandra E ^a   Kirby, Michael A ^a   Yellon, Steven M ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical remodeling; Cervix; Collagen; Fiber density; Macrophage; Parturition; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; DYSTOCIA; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; NERVE FIBER; NEURECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PELVIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALS; CERVICAL RIPENING; FEMALE; HORMONES; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PARTURITION; PELVIS; PLACEBOS; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TIME FACTORS; VAGUS NERVE;

RATTUS;

EID: 79952176849     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.086207     Document Type: Article

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