Stretch Activates Human Myometrium via ERK, Caldesmon and Focal Adhesion Signaling

• Yunping Li ,

  * E-mail: yli1@bidmc.harvard.edu

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Watertown, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Maya Reznichenko,

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Rachel M. Tribe,

  Affiliation Division of Reproduction and Endocrinology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Philip E. Hess,

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Michael Taggart,

  Affiliation Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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• HakRim Kim,

  Affiliation Health Sciences Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jon P. DeGnore,

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Samudra Gangopadhyay,

  Affiliation Health Sciences Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Kathleen G. Morgan

  Affiliations Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Watertown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Health Sciences Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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