Correlation between connexin43 expression, cell-cell communication, and oxytocin-induced Ca2+ responses in an immortalized human myometrial cell line

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 433-438

  Burghardt, Robert C ^a   Barhoumi, Rola ^a   Stickney, Mark ^a   Monga, Manju ^b   Ku, Chun Ying ^b   Sanborn, Barbara M ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 BROMO CYCLIC AMP; CALCIUM ION; CONNEXIN 43; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABOR; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

EID: 0029778412     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod55.2.433     Document Type: Article

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