Intrauterine expression of prothrombin in the Sprague-Dawley rat

Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 276-281

  Phillippe, Mark ^a,b   Wolff, David ^a   Saunders, Trevania ^a   Thomas, Leandra ^a   Chapa, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contraction; Myometrium; Prothrombin; Thrombin

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10A; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5; HEPARIN; HIRUDIN; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTHROMBIN; SNAKE VENOM; THROMBIN INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERUS; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRUS; FACTOR V; FACTOR XA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPARIN; HIRUDINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOMETRIUM; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROESTRUS; PROTHROMBIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SNAKE VENOMS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UTERINE CONTRACTION; UTERUS;

EID: 0037057126     PISSN: 10715576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-5576(02)00163-6     Document Type: Article

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