Human Myometrial Gαs-Small (with Serine) and Gs-Large (with Serine) Messenger Ribonucleic Acid Splice Variants Promote the Increased Expression of 46- and 54-Kilodalton Gαs Protein Isoforms in Pregnancy and Their Down-Regulation during Labor

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1069-1075

  Europe Finner, G Nicholas ^a   Phaneuf, Sylvain ^a   Mardon, Helen J ^a   Bernal, Andrés López ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABOR; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYOMETRIUM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PREGNANCY; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SERINE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0029916570     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.81.3.8772578     Document Type: Article

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