Effect of in vivo estradiol administration to bilaterally ovariectomized rats on in vitro myometrial responsiveness to prostaglandin F(2α) and oxytocin

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 597-601

  Gordan, Patrick L ^a   Jenkins, Susan L ^a   Wentworth, Richard A ^a   Nathanielsz, Peter W ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORN OIL; ESTRADIOL; OXYTOCIN; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; MUSCLE PERFUSION; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ANIMALS; DINOPROST; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MYOMETRIUM; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; OXYTOCIN; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RATS; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

ANIMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030854619     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.3.597     Document Type: Article

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