The Biological Activity of the Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Receptor-Adenylate Cyclase Complex in Human Myometrium Is Reduced at the End of Pregnancy

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 745-751

  Grammatopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Stirrat, Gordon M ^a   Williams, Stuart A ^a   Hillhouse, Edward W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP; FORSKOLIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ADENYLATE CYCLASE TOXIN; CELL MEMBRANE; CHOLERA TOXIN; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CYCLIC AMP; FEMALE; FORSKOLIN; HUMANS; ISOPROTERENOL; MYOMETRIUM; PERTUSSIS TOXIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; VIRULENCE FACTORS, BORDETELLA;

EID: 0030064977     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.81.2.8636298     Document Type: Article

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