Effects of platet-activating factor on cytokine production by human uterine cervical fibroblasts

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 475-481

  Sugano, Terumasa ^a,b   Narahara, Hisashi ^a   Nasu, Kaei ^a   Arima, Kazuyo ^a   Fujisawa, Kayo ^a   Miyakawa, Isao ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervix; Cytokines; Fibroblasts; Platelet activating factor; Platelet activating factor receptor

Indexed keywords

AUTACOID; BEPAFANT; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPID; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; RANTES; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR DERIVATIVE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT; 1 O HEXADECYL 2 N METHYLCARBAMYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; 1-O-HEXADECYL-2-N-METHYLCARBAMYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ETHER PHOSPHOLIPID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHILDBIRTH; COLLAGEN DEGRADATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS MATURITY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INCUBATION TIME; LABOR; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; TIME; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

CELLS, CULTURED; CERVIX UTERI; CHEMOKINE CCL2; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; PHOSPHOLIPID ETHERS; PLATELET ACTIVATING FACTOR; RANTES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0034744172     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/7.5.475     Document Type: Article

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