Failure of parturition in mice lacking the prostaglandin F receptor

Science

Volumn 277, Issue 5326, 1997, Pages 681-683

  Sugimoto, Yukihiko ^a   Yamasaki, Atsushi ^a   Segi, Eri ^a   Tsuboi, Kazuhito ^a   Aze, Yoshiya ^b   Nishimura, Tatsuya ^b   Oida, Hiroji ^b   Yoshida, Nobuaki ^c   Tanaka, Takashi ^c   Katsuyama, Masato ^a   Hasumoto, Ken Yuh ^a   Murata, Takahiko ^a   Hirata, Masakazu ^a   Ushikubi, Fumitaka ^a   Negishi, Manabu ^a   Ichikawa, Atsushi ^a   Narumiya, Shuh ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO   (Japan)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; PROSTAGLANDIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; LUTEAL CELL; LUTEOLYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE RELEASE; PROSTAGLANDIN METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CORPUS LUTEUM; DINOPROST; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OVARIECTOMY; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, PROSTAGLANDIN; UTERINE CONTRACTION; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 14444268088     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5326.681     Document Type: Article

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