Inflammatory aetiology of human myometrial activation tested using directed graphs.

There are three main hypotheses for the activation of the human uterus at labour: functional progesterone withdrawal, inflammatory stimulation, and oxytocin receptor activation. To test these alternatives we have taken information and data from the literature to develop causal pathway models for the...

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Main Authors: Andrew M Bisits, Roger Smith, Sam Mesiano, George Yeo, Kenneth Kwek, David MacIntyre, Eng C Chan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2005-07-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1185645?pdf=render