Protease-activated receptor isoform expression in pregnant and nonpregnant rat myometrial tissue

Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 460-468

  Chien, Edward K ^a   Sweet, Leigh ^b   Phillippe, Mark ^b   Marietti, Sarah ^b   Kim, Terrence T ^b   Wolff, David A ^b   Thomas, Leandra ^b   Bieber, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Parturition; Pregnancy; Thrombin; Uterus

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 1; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 3; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 4;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEART; HUMAN; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MOUSE; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPLEEN; TISSUE; UTERUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, PAR-1; RECEPTOR, PAR-2; RECEPTORS, PROTEINASE-ACTIVATED;

EID: 0345097365     PISSN: 10715576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-5576(03)00148-5     Document Type: Article

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