Role of mechanical signals in the onset of term and preterm labor

Front Horm Res. 2001:27:165-78. doi: 10.1159/000061025.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Biomechanical Phenomena
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Labor, Obstetric / physiology*
  • Mechanoreceptors
  • Myometrium / physiology
  • Obstetric Labor, Premature / physiopathology*
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy, Multiple
  • Risk Factors
  • Signal Transduction*
  • Twins
  • Uterine Contraction / physiology