1.   Bleeding, uterine contractions, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea were the most frequent other effects of the treatment, the women in the clinical trials reported.

2.   Bleeding, uterine contractions, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea were the most frequent other effects of the treatment.

3.   A week later, she takes another drug, misoprostol, which causes uterine contractions and, sometime later, the expulsion of the fetus.

4.   Each year, doctors prescribe such monitors to thousands of pregnant women to detect uterine contractions, which are often signs of early labor.

5.   It has low toxicity and fairly minor side effects, including causing uterine contractions and miscarriage.

6.   It works in conjunction with a second drug that triggers uterine contractions, and must be given within three weeks after the first missed menstrual cycle.

7.   Oxytocin is the hormone responsible for uterine contractions during labor and for milk production, she said.

8.   Other, more common side effects are painful uterine contractions, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

9.   Scientists have long known that oxytocin stimulates uterine contractions in mammals at birth and milk release in the breasts, and vasopressin regulates blood pressure.

10.   The drug misoprostol, taken two days later, induces uterine contractions that expel the fetus.