[Ca2+] i signaling in pregnant human myometrium

SE Szal, JT Repke, EW Seely… - American Journal …, 1994 - journals.physiology.org
… [Ca”+]i signal ing in pregnant human myometrium. … and agonist-induced contraction of human
myometrium at term pregnancy… evidence that the phasic nature of term human myometrium

[HTML][HTML] A close look at the contraction and relaxation of the myometrium; the role of calcium

B Pehlivanoğlu, S Bayrak, M Doğan - Journal of the Turkish …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… the role of calcium both in contraction and relaxation of the myometrium in this review. Major
advances in understanding the molecular physiology of the myometrium have been recently …

G protein signalling pathways in myometrium: affecting the balance between contraction and relaxation

BM Sanborn, C Yue, W Wang… - Reviews of …, 1998 - rep.bioscientifica.com
… These data suggest that activation of MAPK by oxytocin was mediated through coupling of
the oxytocin receptor to a Gαi type protein in human myometrial cells. Additional support for …

Poor spontaneous and oxytocin-stimulated contractility in human myometrium from postdates pregnancies

S Arrowsmith, S Quenby, A Weeks, T Burdyga, S Wray - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
human myometrium has arisen from in vitro studies examining the contractile abilities of
myometriumcontraction coupling may be contributing to the etiology of postdates pregnancy. …

A computational model of excitation and contraction in uterine myocytes from the pregnant rat

CP Testrow, AV Holden, A Shmygol, H Zhang - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
… The electrophysiology of the human myometrium is complex, … uterine smooth muscle cells
within the myometrial tissue, and their … developed the most comprehensive human myometrial

Mathematical model of excitation-contraction in a uterine smooth muscle cell

L Bursztyn, O Eytan, AJ Jaffa… - American Journal of …, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
… Dividing this by the conductance of a single L-type VOCC, 29 pS in the pregnant human
myometrium (7), we find that ∼250 VOCCs can conduct current at the same time. …

[PDF][PDF] The physiological mechanism of uterine contraction with emphasis on calcium ion

M Alotaibi - Calcium signaling, 2014 - Citeseer
… of myometrial contraction and the role of calcium ions during contraction and relaxation. …
The excitation-contraction coupling in myometrium can occur via two main mechanisms; …

Characterization of the tissue‐level Ca2+ signals in spontaneously contracting human myometrium

G Bru‐Mercier, JE Gullam, S Thornton… - Journal of cellular …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… in thin slices of intact human myometrium. We found that the … ] i signals in human myometrium
is achieved via propagation … and contraction in thin slices of human myometrium. (A) Raw …

Contraction and Relaxation of Human Uterine and Placental Smooth Muscle: Endogenous Control and Calcium Activation Mechansim

S Maigaard - Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 1987 - Taylor & Francis
… , plays a more important role in activation of contraction in the arteries than in the myometrial
strips. Thus, human myometrial arteries may use multiple sources of calcium for activation …

[PDF][PDF] Uterine contraction

V Jain, GR Saade, RE Garfield - Encyclopedia of reproduction, 1999 - researchgate.net
… potentials causes more pronounced contraction because of an … contraction is produced.
Synchronized stimulation of large areas of the myometrium can increase the force of contraction