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Molecular Regulation of Parturition: The Role of the Decidual Clock.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 27 Apr 2015
Norwitz Errol R, Bonney Elizabeth A, Snegovskikh Victoria V, Williams Michelle A, Phillippe Mark, Park Joong Shin, Abrahams Vikki M
Abstract excerpt
The timing of birth is a critical determinant of perinatal outcome. Despite intensive research, the molecular mechanisms responsible for the onset of labor both at term and preterm remain unclear. It is likely that a "parturition cascade" exists that triggers labor at term, that preterm labor results from mechanisms that either prematurely stimulate or short-circuit this cascade, and that these mechanisms involve...
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