Interactions between progesterone receptor isoforms in myometrial cells in human labour

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 875-879

  Pieber, Doris ^a   Allport, Victoria C ^b   Hills, Frank ^b   Johnson, Mark ^c   Bennett, Phillip R ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Labour; Myometrium; Parturition; Progesterone receptor

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR A; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABOR; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSACTIVATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0034841827     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/7.9.875     Document Type: Article

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