Small heat shock protein 27 (Hsp27) expression is highly induced in rat myometrium during late pregnancy and labour

Reproduction

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 115-126

  White, B G ^a   Williams, S J ^a   Highmore, K ^a   MacPhee, D J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SERINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LABOR; MUSCLE CELL; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PUERPERIUM; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UPREGULATION; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; FEMALE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYOMETRIUM; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 12744262888     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00426     Document Type: Article

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