Nerve growth factor (NGF) and NGF mRNA change in rat uterus during pregnancy

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 294, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 58-62

  Varol, Fusun G ^a   Duchemin, Anne Marie ^b,c   Neff, Norton H ^c   Hadjiconstantinou, Maria ^b,c  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Denervation; Nerve growth factor; Nerve growth factor mRNA; Pregnancy; Sympathetic neurons; Uterus

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RAT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TISSUE LEVEL; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; UTERUS WEIGHT;

ANIMAL; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; ORGAN WEIGHT; PREGNANCY; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; UTERUS;

EID: 0034634739     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01533-0     Document Type: Article

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