mRNA-expression of often used house-keeping genes and the relation between RNA and DNA are sex steroid-dependent parameters in human myometrium and fibroids

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 225-230

  Wu, Xuxia ^a   Englund, Katarina ^a   Lindblom, Bo ^a   Blanck, Agneta ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

House keeping genes; Nucleic acids; Sex steroids

Indexed keywords

DNA; G ACTIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GONADORELIN; GOSERELIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; UTERUS MYOMA;

ACTINS; ADULT; AGED; DNA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; GOSERELIN; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOMETRIUM; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0042072984     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072079     Document Type: Article

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