Sentences with phrase «smooth uterine muscles»

This hormone not only relaxes the smooth uterine muscles but also the muscles in your gastrointestinal tract, making digestion slower, leading to accumulation of waste in the large intestine.

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In the case of uterine fibroids, the body's natural estrogens turn on and off genes in the smooth muscle of the uterus that allow the tumors to grow, according to research by McLachlan and colleagues.

Rho - kinase mediates diphosphorylation of myosin regulatory light chain in cultured uterine but not vascular smooth muscle cells.

A functional role for nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate in oxytocin - mediated contraction of uterine smooth muscle from rat.

Responses were correlated to calcium release in cultured rat uterine smooth muscle cells measured by fluorescence microscopy.

Uterine fibroids are generally benign (non-cancerous) tumors that are made from nodules of smooth muscle cells and fibrous connective tissue, hence the name «fibroid tumor».

Raspberry leaf extract apparently contains a component that stimulates contractions of the smooth muscle in the uterine wall; these are toning contractions.

They have been shown to strengthen the uterine wall, relax smooth muscle, and help to make delivery easier and speedier by helping the uterus contract more efficiently.

Uterine cysts: Vitex has been found to be helpful at reducing cysts that are growing within the smooth muscle layer of the uterus.