Oxytocin receptors in bovine cervix: Distribution and gene expression during the estrous cycle

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 700-708

  Fuchs, A R ^a,b   Ivell, R ^b   Fields, P A ^c   Chang, S M T ^d   Fields, M J ^d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Institut fur Hormon und Fortpflanzungsforschung IHF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LABOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UTERINE CERVIX;

EID: 0030022950     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.3.700     Document Type: Article

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