Effects of glucocorticoids on estrogen receptor messenger ribonucleic acid in the pregnant ovine myometrium in vivo and in vitro

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 230-241

  Wu, Wen Xuan ^a   Derks, Jan B ^a   Nathanielsz, Peter W ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OVIS; OVIS ARIES; ANIMALIA;

BETAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANIMAL; BETAMETHASONE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029655785     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.1.230     Document Type: Article

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