Evidence for a local fetal influence on myometrial oxytocin receptors during pregnancy in the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 200-207

  Parry, Laura J ^a,b   Bathgate, Ross A D ^a   Shaw, Geoffrey ^b   Renfree, Marilyn B ^b   Ivell, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; MESOTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE FERTILITY; MARSUPIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; FEMALE; FETUS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MACROPODIDAE; MYOMETRIUM; OCHRATOXINS; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; UTERINE CONTRACTION; VAGINA;

EID: 0031021186     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.1.200     Document Type: Article

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