Metabolism of oxytocin in rat uterus and placenta in late gestation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 807-812

  Mitchell, B F ^a,b   Fang, Xin ^a   Wong, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; OXYTOCIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DECIDUA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

AMINOPEPTIDASES; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYSTINYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; CYTOSOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; KINETICS; MICROSOMES; OXYTOCIN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TAMOXIFEN; TIME FACTORS; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030961160     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.4.807     Document Type: Article

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