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The mechanisms leading to the initiation of normal, premature or dysfunctional human labour are poorly understood, as animal models are inappropriate, and experimental studies are limited. Computational modelling provides a means of linking non-invasive clinical data with the results of in vitro cell and tissue physiology. Nonlinear wave processes – propagation in an excitable medium – provides a quantitatively testable description of mechanisms of premature and full term labour, and a view of changes in uterine electrophysiology during gestation as a trajectory in excitation and intercellular coupling parameter space. Propagation phenomena can account for both premature and full term labour.
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Pervolaraki, E., Holden, A.V. (2012). Human Uterine Excitation Patterns Leading to Labour: Synchronization or Propagation?. In: Lones, M.A., Smith, S.L., Teichmann, S., Naef, F., Walker, J.A., Trefzer, M.A. (eds) Information Processign in Cells and Tissues. IPCAT 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7223. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28792-3_21
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