Corticotrophin-releasing hormone and platelet-activating factor induce transcription of the type-2 cyclo-oxygenase gene in human fetal membranes

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 476-480

  Alvi, S A ^a   Brown, N L ^a   Bennett, P R ^a   Elder, M G ^a   Sullivan, M H F ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corticotrophin releasing hormone; COX 2 expression; Fetal membranes; Platelet activating factor; Prostaglandin E2

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DINOPROSTONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PLATELET ACTIVATING FACTOR; PREGNANCY; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032951407     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/5.5.476     Document Type: Article

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