Site-specific augmentation of amnion cyclooxygenase-2 and decidua vera phospholipase-a2 expression in labor: Possible contribution of mechanical stretch and interleukin-1 to amnion prostaglandin synthesis

Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 68-74

  Terakawa, Koichi ^a   Itoh, Hiroaki ^a   Sagawa, Norimasa ^a   Yura, Shigeo ^a   Yoshida, Masahiro ^a   Korita, Daizo ^a   Kakui, Kazuyo ^a   Fujii, Shingo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Parturition; Pregnancy; Prostaglandin; WISH cells

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; INTERLEUKIN 1; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

AMNION; ARTICLE; CHORION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; FETUS; FETUS MEMBRANE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRETCHING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMNION; BIOMECHANICS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DECIDUA; DINOPROSTONE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; ISOENZYMES; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MECHANORECEPTORS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; PREGNANCY; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0036129853     PISSN: 10715576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-5576(01)00157-5     Document Type: Article

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