Gestational Changes in the Uterine Expression of an Inwardly Rectifying K+ Channel, ROMK

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-64

  Lundgren, David W ^b   Moore, John J ^b   Chang, Sharon M ^b   Collins, Patricia L ^b   Chang, Albert S ^a  

^a METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030964735     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/00379727-216-44156     Document Type: Article

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