Effect of estrogen on muscarinic acetylcholine receptor expression in rat myometrium

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-148

  Abdalla, Fernando M F ^a   Maróstica, Elisabeth ^b   Picarelli, Zuleika P ^a   Abreu, Lygia C ^b   Avellar, Maria Christina W ^b   Porto, Catarina S ^b  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carbachol; Estrogen; Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors; Myometrium

Indexed keywords

4 DIPHENYLACETOXY 1 METHYLPIPERIDINE; ATROPINE; CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; METHOCTRAMINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; PIRENZEPINE; PROTEIN M2; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; QUINUCLIDINYL BENZILATE; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RECEPTOR DENSITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 1142267457     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2003.10.040     Document Type: Article

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