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. 1975 Sep;55(1):41–46. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1975.tb07607.x

Mechanical responses of rat isolated uterine horns to transmural stimulation.

M Hollingsworth
PMCID: PMC1666719  PMID: 1182347

Abstract

1 Transmural stimulation of rat isolated uterine horns at low pulse width produced contractions. These were antagonized by hyoscine or tetrodotoxin and potentiated by physostigmine. 2 In the presence of hyoscine, and during bradykinin-induced contractions, transmural stimulation produced inhibition. This inhibition was antagonized by guanethidine, propranolol or tetrodotoxin. 3 Hexamethonium or pempidine did not affect responses to transmural stimulation. 4 It is suggested that transmural stimulation is a method of exciting cholinergic motor and noradrenergic inhibitory postganglionic neurones to the rat myometrium.

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