Nitric oxide increases matrix metalloproteinase-1 production in human uterine cervical fibroblast cells

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 979-985

  Yoshida, Masahiro ^a   Sagawa, Norimasa ^a   Itoh, Hiroaki ^a   Yura, Shigeo ^a   Korita, Daizo ^a   Kakui, Kazuyo ^a   Hirota, Naoyoshi ^b   Sato, Takashi ^c   Ito, Akira ^c   Fujii, Shingo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Pharmacology Group   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interleukin 1 ; Matrix metalloproteinases; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase; Uterine cervical ripening

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYME RELEASE; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MEDIATOR; MODULATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING;

EID: 0034794345     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/7.10.979     Document Type: Article

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