Linking Myometrial Physiology to Intrauterine Pressure; How Tissue-Level Contractions Create Uterine Contractions of Labor

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Young, Roger C ^a   Barendse, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Wolfram Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTORY MATERIALS;

ACTION-POTENTIALS; CELL/B.E; CELLULAR AUTOMATA SIMULATIONS; HIGH PRESSURE; MATHEMATICA; MAXIMUM DISTANCE; MODEL-BASED OPC; REFRACTORY PERIOD; TISSUE LEVELS; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

TISSUE;

NIFEDIPINE; OXYTOCIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CELLULAR AUTOMATON SIMULATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLOBAL SYNCHRONIZATION; INPUT BASED CLASSIFICATION; INTRAUTERINE PRESSURE; LABOR; LAW OF LAPLACE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MEMBRANE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOMETRIAL MYOGENIC RESPONSE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; REFRACTORY PERIOD; REGIONAL CONTRACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; UTERUS CONTRACTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 84908355212     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003850     Document Type: Article

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