Presence of sensory nerve corpuscles in the human corpus and cervix uteri during pregnancy and labor as revealed by immunohistochemistry

Table 1 Clinical characteristics of non-pregnant, term-pregnant, and women in labor

	Non-pregnant n = 7	Term-pregnant n = 8	In labor n = 5
Mean age (years)	45	33	27
Range	39–50	28–38	21–35
Mean gestational age (completed weeks)		38	40
Range		37–39	37–41
Mean parity	3	1	1
Range	0–4	0–2	0–3
Cervical dilatation (cm)			5
Range			3–10
Mean birth weight (g)		3407	3713
Range		2935–4080	3430–4145

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