Relationships among sex steroids, oxytocin, and their receptors in the rat uterus during late gestation and at parturition

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 3213-3219

  Fang, X ^a   Wong, S ^a   Mitchell, B F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG VEHICLE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; UTERUS;

EID: 0029927078     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.8.8754742     Document Type: Article

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