Establishment and characterization of a conditionally immortalized smooth muscle/myometrial-like cell line

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 284-294

  Qian, Jin ^a   Hendrix, E Michael ^a   Larsen, William J ^a   Dorn II, Gerald W ^a   Lessard, James L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

connexin 43 (CX43); myometrium; progesterone; progesterone receptor; SM22 ; smooth muscle actin (SMGA); smooth muscle differentiation; smooth muscle myosin heavy chain; thromboxane A2 receptor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; VIRUS LARGE T ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; FEMALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTINS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL LINE; FEMALE; INTESTINES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOMETRIUM; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

EID: 0030946876     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199707)47:3<284::AID-MRD7>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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