Elevated tissue levels of collagenase during dilation of uterine cervix in human parturition
- 1 October 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Vol. 159 (4) , 971-976
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0002-9378(88)80183-2
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