Suppression subtractive hybridization identified a marked increase in thrombospondin-1 associated with parturition in pregnant sheep myometrium

Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2364-2371

  Wu, Wen Xuan ^a   Zhang, Qi ^a   Ma, Xiao Hong ^a   Unno, Nobuya ^b   Nathanielsz, Peter W ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; COLLAGEN; FIBRONECTIN; NIMESULIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; SCLEROPROTEIN; THROMBOSPONDIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

EID: 0033306864     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.5.6697     Document Type: Article

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