Expression of cyclo-oxygenase types-1 and -2 in human myometrium throughout pregnancy

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 880-884

  Slater, Donna M ^a   Dennes, William J B ^a   Campa, Juan S ^b   Poston, Lucilla ^b   Bennett, Phillip R ^a  

^a QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyclo oxygenase; Labour; Myometrium; Pregnancy; Prostaglandins

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABOR; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CESAREAN SECTION; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0032817275     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/5.9.880     Document Type: Article

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