Human labour is associated with nuclear factor-κB activity which mediates cyclo-oxygenase-2 expression and is involved with the 'functional progesterone withdrawal'

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 581-586

  Allport, V C ^a   Pieber, D ^a   Slater, D M ^a   Newton, R ^b   White, J O ^a   Bennett, P R ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

COX 2; Labour; NF B; Parturition; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROSTAGLANDIN;

AMNION; AMNION CELL; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS MEMBRANE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPECIES; STIMULATION; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; UTERUS CONTRACTION; UTERUS RELAXATION;

CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NF-KAPPA B; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; PYRAZOLES;

EID: 0034970374     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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