Characterization of two labor-induced genes, DSCR1 and TCTE1L, in the pregnant ovine myometrium

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 117-126

  Wu, W X ^a   Ma, X H ^a   Zhang, Q ^a   Chakrabarty, K ^a   Nathanielsz, P W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; NIMESULIDE; PLACENTA PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN DSCR1; PROTEIN TCTE1L; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC CODE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HYBRIDIZATION; LABOR; LABOR INDUCTION; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARIECTOMY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; CYCLOOXYGENASE INHIBITORS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHEEP; SULFONAMIDES; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 0041669257     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1780117     Document Type: Article

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