Coupling of oxytocin receptor to G proteins in rat myometrium during labor: G(i) receptor interaction

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 272, Issue 5 35-5, 1997, Pages

  Strakova, Zuzana ^a,b   Soloff, Melvyn S ^a,c  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

guanosine 5' O (3 thiotriphosphate); myometrial membrane; pertussis toxin; signal transduction

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE 5' O (3 THIOTRIPHOSPHATE); OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PERTUSSIS TOXIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PHOSPHOLIPASE C;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LABOR; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; RECEPTOR OCCUPANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0030911332     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.1997.272.5.e870     Document Type: Article

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