Inhibition of oxytocin receptor and estrogen receptor-expression, but not relaxin receptors (LGR7), in the myometrium of late pregnant relaxin gene knockout mice

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 4272-4275

  Siebel, Andrew L ^a   Gehring, Helen M ^a   Reytomas, Irna Grace T ^a   Parry, Laura J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; RELAXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GESTATION PERIOD; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RELAXIN; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0141450620     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-0548     Document Type: Article

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