Effect of labor on glucocorticoid receptor (GRTotal, GRα, and GRβ) proteins in ovine intrauterine tissues

Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 136-144

  Gupta, Shalini ^a   Gyomorey, Sandor ^b   Lye, Stephen J ^b   Gibb, William ^b   Challis, John R G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Glucocorticoid receptor; GR isoform; GR isoform; Ovine parturition

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR ALPHA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR BETA; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMNION CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHORION; CYTOSOL; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MEMBRANE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABOR; MESENCHYME; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHEEP; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMNION; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL NUCLEUS; CHORION; CYTOSOL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SHEEP; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TROPHOBLASTS; UTERUS;

EID: 0037390525     PISSN: 10715576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-5576(03)00010-8     Document Type: Article

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