Human cervical ripening is associated with an increase in cervical inducible nitric oxide synthase expression

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1367-1372

  Tschugguel, Walter ^a,b   Schneeberger, Christian ^a   Lass, Harald ^a   Stonek, Felix ^a   Zaghlula, Mohammed B ^a   Czerwenka, Klaus ^a   Schatten, Christian ^a   Kaider, Alexandra ^a   Husslein, Peter ^a   Huber, Johannes C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CERVIX UTERI; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABOR STAGE, FIRST; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 0033007543     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.6.1367     Document Type: Article

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