Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and GnRH receptor gene expression in human myometrium and leiomyomata and the direct action of GnRH analogs on myometrial smooth muscle cells and interaction with ovarian steroids in vitro

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3215-3221

  Chegini, Nasser ^a,b   Rong, Hui ^a   Dou, Qingchuan ^a   Kipersztok, Simon ^a   Williams, R Stan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; LEUPRORELIN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; RECOMBINANT TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEIOMYOMA; MYOMETRIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; DNA; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; LEUPROLIDE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE 17-ACETATE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOMETRIUM; RECEPTORS, LHRH; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029823957     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.9.3215     Document Type: Article

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