Myometrial physiology–time to translate?

S Arrowsmith, A Kendrick, JA Hanley… - Experimental …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… –contraction coupling in the myometrium and how this relates to our understanding of the
changes that occur to produce myometrial … stimulate or relax the myometrium, to address the …

Regulation of human myometrial contractility during pregnancy and labour: are calcium homeostatic pathways important?

RM Tribe - Experimental Physiology, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… Again, much of our understanding of excitation– contraction coupling in myometrium
arises from studies of animal myometrium and, to a lesser extent, human myometrium and is …

Uterine contractions in rodent models and humans

M Malik, M Roh, SK England - Acta physiologica, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… , or human myometrial smooth … a contraction. Given these MEA studies and magnetomyography
data showing that multiple pacemaker regions contribute to each contraction in humans, …

Spatiotemporal patterning of uterine excitation patterns in human labour

E Pervolaraki, AV Holden - Biosystems, 2013 - Elsevier
… At full term, the excitation and contraction of the human myometrium is almost entirely
determined by the influx of extra-cellular calcium voltage gated calcium channels; there is little …

Multiple mechanisms involved in oxytocin-induced modulation of myometrial contractility

A Shmygol, J Gullam, A Blanks… - Acta Pharmacologica …, 2006 - nature.com
… the tonic contraction seen at the beginning of oxytocin application (see Figure 1) and changes
in frequency of contractions are mediated by the SR Ca2+, and potentiation of contraction

Effects of external calcium, magnesium, and temperature on spontaneous contractions of pregnant human myometrium

T Kawarabayashi, T Kishikawa… - Biology of …, 1989 - academic.oup.com
… twenty four small strips of 31 pregnant human isthmic myometrium … evoked by electrical field
stimulation of pregnant human myometrium. … contraction of circular muscle of rat myometrium

Contraction of cultured human uterine smooth muscle cells after stimulation with endothelin-1

E Dallot, M Pouchelet, N Gouhier, D Cabrol… - Biology of …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… An increase in the density of myometrial ETA receptors [11, 12] accompanies … coupled to
the phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C/Ca 2+ pathway are found in human myometrial

Calcium-activated K+ channels as modulators of human myometrial contractile activity

K Anwer, C Oberti, GJ Perez… - … of Physiology-Cell …, 1993 - journals.physiology.org
… regulation of myometrial membrane potential, [ Ca2+]i, and contraction. We … human
myometrial cells. Furthermore, we demonstrate that IbTX elicits contractions in human myometrium

Mechanotransduction in rat myometrium: coordination of contractions of electrically and chemically isolated tissues

RC Young, G Goloman - Reproductive Sciences, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
… We compared each stretch-return contraction with the control contractionmyometrial
myogenic response is the phase coordination of contractions of mechanically coupled myometrium. …

Monitoring uterine contractions during labor: current challenges and future directions

RC Young, PS Marinescu, NS Seligman - American Journal of Obstetrics …, 2023 - Elsevier
… Early models proposed wave-like propagation of bioelectrical activity as the sole
mechanism for recruiting the myometrium to participate in the contraction and increase …