Expression of estrogen receptors-α and -β in the pregnant ovine uterine artery endothelial cells in vivo and in vitro

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 530-537

  Wu, Xiang Liao ^a   Magness, Ronald R ^b   Chen, Dong Bao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Caveolin 1; Endothelium; ER ; ER ; Estradiol receptor; Mechanisms of hormone action; Nitric oxide; Pregnancy; Uterine artery; Uterine blood flow; Uterus

Indexed keywords

CAVEOLIN 1; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXON; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; UTERINE ARTERY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 14044257842     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.035949     Document Type: Article

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