In Vivo Evaluation of Cervical Stiffness Evolution during Induced Ripening Using Shear Wave Elastography, Histology and 2 Photon Excitation Microscopy: Insight from an Animal Model

Laura Peralta; Eve Mourier; Christophe Richard; Gilles Charpigny; Thibaut Larcher; Dora Aït-Belkacem; Naveen K. Balla; Sophie Brasselet; Mickael Tanter; Marie Muller; Pascale Chavatte-Palmer

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0133377

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In Vivo Evaluation of Cervical Stiffness Evolution during Induced Ripening Using Shear Wave Elastography, Histology and 2 Photon Excitation Microscopy: Insight from an Animal Model

Laura Peralta ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Laura Peralta, Eve Mourier

* E-mail: lperalta@ugr.es

Affiliation Department of Structural Mechanics, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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Eve Mourier ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Laura Peralta, Eve Mourier

Affiliations INRA, UMR 1198 Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy en Josas, France, PremUp foundation, 75006 Paris, France
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Christophe Richard,

Affiliations INRA, UMR 1198 Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy en Josas, France, PremUp foundation, 75006 Paris, France
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Gilles Charpigny,

Affiliation INRA, UMR 1198 Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy en Josas, France
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Thibaut Larcher,

Affiliation INRA, UMR 703 APEX, Oniris, F-44307 Nantes, France
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Dora Aït-Belkacem,

Affiliation Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel UMR 7249, 13013 Marseille, France
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Naveen K. Balla,

Affiliation Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel UMR 7249, 13013 Marseille, France
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Sophie Brasselet,

Affiliation Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel UMR 7249, 13013 Marseille, France
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Mickael Tanter,

Affiliation Institut Langevin, ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, Paris, France
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Marie Muller ,

¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Institut Langevin, ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, Paris, France, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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Pascale Chavatte-Palmer

¶‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations INRA, UMR 1198 Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy en Josas, France, PremUp foundation, 75006 Paris, France
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In Vivo Evaluation of Cervical Stiffness Evolution during Induced Ripening Using Shear Wave Elastography, Histology and 2 Photon Excitation Microscopy: Insight from an Animal Model

Laura Peralta,
Eve Mourier,
Christophe Richard,
Gilles Charpigny,
Thibaut Larcher,
Dora Aït-Belkacem,
Naveen K. Balla,
Sophie Brasselet,
Mickael Tanter,
Marie Muller

Published: August 28, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133377

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