City Paper, Feb. 29, 2008 NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The scientific director of the Meharry Center for Women's Health Research in Nashville and a team of researchers from UTMB have concluded that inhibiting the activity of an enzyme during pregnancy can reduce the incidence of pre-term births in rats. The study was published in the journal Reproduction. Co-authors included Melissa J. Wentz, Shao-Qing Shi, Leili Shi, Salama A. Salama, Hassan M. Harirah, Hala Fouad and Robert E. Garfield, of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at UTMB.