Female reproduction in mice lacking the prostaglandin F receptor - Roles of prostaglandin and oxytocin receptors in parturition

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 449, Issue , 1998, Pages 317-321

  Sugimoto, Y ^a   Segi, E ^a   Tsuboi, K ^a   Ichikawa, A ^a   Narumiya, S ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTAGLANDIN F; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; PROSTAGLANDIN RECEPTOR;

BIRTH; LUTEOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

ANIMALS; CESAREAN SECTION; DINOPROST; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OVARIECTOMY; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, PROSTAGLANDIN; REPRODUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031675379     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4871-3_39     Document Type: Article

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