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List of works by Michael J Taggart

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Are animal models relevant to key aspects of human parturition?

scientific article published on 10 June 2009

The transcription factor encyclopedia

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Contribution of sarcoplasmic reticular calcium to smooth muscle contractile activation: gestational dependence in isolated rat uterus

scientific article published on August 15, 1998

Mechanisms of 17 beta-oestradiol induced vasodilatation in isolated pressurized rat small arteries.

scientific article

A computational model of the ionic currents, Ca2+ dynamics and action potentials underlying contraction of isolated uterine smooth muscle.

scientific article

Stretch activates human myometrium via ERK, caldesmon and focal adhesion signaling

scientific article

Acetylation of heat shock protein 20 (Hsp20) regulates human myometrial activity

scientific article

Characterization of small arteries isolated from the human placental chorionic plate

scientific article published in May 2002

Effect of metabolic inhibition on intracellular Ca2+, phosphorylation of myosin regulatory light chain and force in rat smooth muscle

scientific article published on 01 March 1997

Expression of TASK and TREK, two-pore domain K+ channels, in human myometrium

scientific article published in April 2005

Inhibitors of actin filament polymerisation attenuate force but not global intracellular calcium in isolated pressurised resistance arteries

scientific article published in January 2003

The inwardly rectifying K+ channel KIR7.1 controls uterine excitability throughout pregnancy

scientific article

Caveolae and sarcoplasmic reticular coupling in smooth muscle cells of pressurised arteries: the relevance for Ca2+ oscillations and tone

scientific article published on 7 February 2006

Effects of a phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitor on endothelium-dependent relaxation of myometrial small arteries

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Simultaneous measurement of intracellular pH and contraction in uterine smooth muscle

scientific article published on 01 June 1993

Effects of pH and inorganic phosphate on force production in alpha-toxin-permeabilized isolated rat uterine smooth muscle

scientific article published on 01 June 1993

Major difference between rat and guinea-pig ureter in the ability of agonists and caffeine to release Ca2+ and influence force.

scientific article published in December 1995

Comparison of U46619-, endothelin-1- or phenylephrine-induced changes in cellular Ca2+ profiles and Ca2+ sensitisation of constriction of pressurised rat resistance arteries

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Human uterine and placental arteries exhibit tissue-specific acute responses to 17β-estradiol and estrogen-receptor-specific agonists

scientific article published on 19 December 2013

Differentiation of human epidermal neural crest stem cells (hEPI-NCSC) into virtually homogenous populations of dopaminergic neurons

scientific journal article

Modulation of caveolin-1 expression can affect signalling through the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt pathway and cellular proliferation in response to insulin-like growth factor I.

scientific article published on 26 June 2008

Expression and function of potassium channels in the human placental vasculature

scientific article published on 02 March 2006

Acute effects of oestrogen receptor subtype-specific agonists on vascular contractility.

scientific article

Abolition of contractions in the myometrium by acidification in vitro

scientific article published in The Lancet

The effects of vascular smooth muscle caldesmon on force production by 'desensitised' skeletal muscle fibres

scientific article published on 01 December 1988

Occurrence of intracellular pH transients during spontaneous contractions in rat uterine smooth muscle

scientific article published on 01 December 1993

Sphingosine-1-phosphate acts via rho-associated kinase and nitric oxide to regulate human placental vascular tone.

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Regulation of endothelial-dependent relaxation in human systemic arteries by SKCa and IKCa channels.

scientific article published on January 2007

Stimulus-dependent modulation of smooth muscle intracellular calcium and force by altered intracellular pH

scientific article published on 01 September 1996

Phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors and omental and placental small artery function in normal pregnancy and pre-eclampsia

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Regulation of the uterine contractile apparatus and cytoskeleton.

scientific article

Ca2+ regulation of the thin filaments: biochemical mechanism and physiological role

scientific article published on 01 August 1988

Age-related changes in the contractile and passive arterial properties of murine mesenteric small arteries are altered by caveolin-1 knockout.

scientific article published on August 2012

Intracellular calcium stores and agonist-induced contractions in isolated human myometrium

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

Chemotactic activity of gestational tissues through late pregnancy, term labor, and RU486-induced preterm labor in Guinea pigs

scientific article

The effects of intracellular and extracellular alkalinization on contractions of the isolated rat uterus

scientific article published in October 1992

Characterisation of tone oscillations in placental and myometrial arteries from normal pregnancies and those complicated by pre-eclampsia and growth restriction.

scientific article published on 11 March 2008

Outcomes of labours augmented with oxytocin

scientific article published on 13 June 2005

Effect of cholesterol depletion on mitogenesis and survival: the role of caveolar and noncaveolar domains in insulin-like growth factor-mediated cellular function.

scientific article published on 15 September 2005

Receptor-coupled contractility of uterine smooth muscle: from membrane to myofilaments.

scientific article

The role of the sarcolemmal Ca2+-ATPase in the pH transients associated with contraction in rat smooth muscle

scientific article published on 01 December 1997

Uterine artery function in a mouse model of pregnancy complicated by diabetes.

scientific article published on 23 August 2008

Towards a computational reconstruction of the electrodynamics of premature and full term human labour

scientific article published on July 13, 2011

A comparison of the effects of intracellular and extracellular pH on contraction in isolated rat portal vein

scientific article published on 01 March 1994

TNF-alpha alters nitric oxide- and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor-mediated vasodilatation in human omental arteries.

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Histamine-induced contraction and relaxation of placental chorionic plate arteries.

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The mechanism of Ca2+ release from the SR of permeabilised guinea-pig and rat ureteric smooth muscle

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

Agonist mobilization of sarcoplasmic reticular calcium in smooth muscle: functional coupling to the plasmalemmal Na+/Ca2+ exchanger?

scientific article published on 01 November 1997

Changes of pH affect calcium currents but not outward potassium currents in rat myometrial cells

scientific article published on 01 November 1995

Towards understanding the myometrial physiome: approaches for the construction of a virtual physiological uterus

scientific article published in June 2007