Up-regulation of oxytocin receptor messenger ribonucleic acid and protein by estradiol in the cervix of ovariectomized rat

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1131-1138

  Umscheid, C A ^a   Wu, W X ^a   Gordan, P ^a   Nathanielsz, P W ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CERVIX UTERI; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0031793915     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.5.1131     Document Type: Article

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