The importance of the smooth muscle cytoskeleton to preterm labour

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 525-529

  Morgan, Kathleen G ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CALDESMON; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MYOSIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOSKELETON; FOCAL ADHESION; HUMAN; LABOR ONSET; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

ADULT; CYTOSKELETON; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; FOCAL ADHESIONS; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOMETRIUM; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 84895194919     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2013.072876     Document Type: Article

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