Increased expression of the rat myometrial oxytocin receptor messenger ribonucleic acid during labor requires both mechanical and hormonal signals

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1055-1061

  Ou, Che Wei ^a,b,c   Chen, Zhi Qing ^a,b   Qi, Shangle ^a,b   Lye, Stephen J ^a,b,c,d  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; LABOR; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MECHANORECEPTORS; MYOMETRIUM; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERUS;

EID: 0031739105     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.5.1055     Document Type: Article

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