Improved electrical coupling in uterine smooth muscle is associated with increased numbers of gap junctions at parturition.

Junctional intercellular communication: the cell-to-cell membrane channel.

1981 • 1,268 citations

Endocrine control of parturition

1979 • 432 citations

Cable properties of smooth muscle

1968 • 391 citations

Gap junction formation in myometrium: control by estrogens, progesterone, and prostaglandins

1980 • 352 citations

Gap Junctions: Their Presence and Necessity in Myometrium During Parturition

1977 • 323 citations

Gap junctions, electrotonic coupling, and intercellular communication.

1978 • 267 citations

A note on conduction velocity

1954 • 256 citations

Inward membrane currents in mammalian myocardium

1972 • 223 citations

Possible role of gap junctions in activation of myometrium during parturition

1978 • 181 citations

Capacitance of the Surface and Transverse Tubular Membrane of Frog Sartorius Muscle Fibers

1969 • 174 citations

Initiation of Parturition

1994 • 152 citations

Changes in electrical properties of rat myometrium during gestation and following hormonal treatments.

1976 • 143 citations

Membrane potential and ionic content in pregnant and non‐pregnant rat myometrium

1965 • 142 citations

A STUDY OF THE PARTURIENT UTERUS WITH THE MICROELECTRODE TECHNIQUE¹

1961 • 103 citations

An analysis of the cable properties of frog ventricular myocardium.

1978 • 100 citations

Effect of progesterone on the electric activity and intrauterine pressure of pregnant and parturient rabbits

1965 • 98 citations

The Structural Implications of the Linear Electrical Properties of Cardiac Purkinje Strands

1970 • 87 citations

Is the nexus necessary for cell-to-cell coupling of smooth muscle?

1976 • 84 citations

Uterine Activity in Late Pregnancy and During Parturition in the Rat

1969 • 76 citations

Electrophysiology of mammalian smooth muscle

1976 • 76 citations

Smooth muscle as a contractile unit.

1962 • 75 citations

Formation of gap junctions by treatment in vitro with potassium conductance blockers.

1978 • 73 citations

Effect of tetraethylammonium on tonic airway smooth muscle: initiation of phasic electrical activity

1975 • 71 citations

Factors controlling myogenic activity in smooth muscle

1973 • 70 citations

Nexus formation in the myometrium during parturition and induced by estrogen

1978 • 64 citations

The passive membrane properties and excitatory junction potentials of the guinea pig deferens.

1980 • 62 citations

Effects of changing the ionic environment on passive and active membrane properties of pregnant rat uterus

1971 • 60 citations

Electrical Impedance of Cardiac Muscle

1961 • 59 citations

Electrical coupling among heart cells in the absence of ultrastructurally defined gap junctions

1981 • 57 citations

Effect of Indomethacin and Aspirin on Uterine Activity in Pregnant Rats: Comparison of Circular and Longitudinal Muscle1

1981 • 51 citations

Effects of tetraethylammonium chloride on contractile, membrane and cable properties of rabbit artery muscle.

1980 • 51 citations

Junctional resistance and action potential delay between embryonic heart cell aggregates.

1980 • 50 citations

Ultrastructural basis for maintenance and termination of pregnancy

1979 • 44 citations

Passive properties of the membrane of single freshly isolated smooth muscle cells

1980 • 44 citations

Specific features of smooth muscle cells recorded from the placental region of the myometrium of pregnant rats

1980 • 43 citations

Effects of sucrose solution on the longitudinal tissue resistivity of trabecular muscle from mammalian heart

1973 • 41 citations

The longitudinal tissue impedance of the smooth muscle of guinea‐pig taenia coli

1969 • 40 citations

The action of catecholamines on guinea-pig taenia coli

1973 • 35 citations

Specific tissue impedances of estrogen- and progesterone-treated rabbit myometrium

1980 • 33 citations

DNA in the rat uterus myometrium during pregnancy and postpartum involution

1978 • 30 citations

Denervation-induced changes in electrophysiologic parameters of the smooth muscle of the guinea-pig and rat was deferens.

1978 • 30 citations

Gap junctions in the myometrium of hypophysectomized estrogen-treated rats

1980 • 28 citations

Longitudinal impedance of single frog muscle fibers.

1975 • 28 citations

Timing of gestation in rats by fetal and maternal weights.

1978 • 26 citations

The effect of denervation on the synchronization of contraction of the rat vas deferens

1976 • 21 citations

Ionic fluxes in rat uterine smooth muscle.

1976 • 20 citations

Impedance components in longitudinal direction in the guinea‐pig taenia coli.

1976 • 19 citations

Resting membrane potentials of pacemaker and non pacemaker areas in rat uterus

1981 • 17 citations

Studies of Impedance in Cardiac Tissue using Sucrose Gap and Computer Techniques

1974 • 14 citations

Postjunctional supersensitivity of the rat vas deferens and gap junctions

1976 • 8 citations

Electrical coupling in rat myometrium during pregnancy

1979 • 6 citations

Myoplasmic Impedance of the Barnacle Muscle Fiber

1975 • 4 citations