Cyclic mechanical stretching and interleukin-1α synergistically up-regulate prostacyclin secretion in cultured human uterine myometrial cells

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 130-137

  Korita, D ^a   Itoh, H ^a   Sagawa, N ^a   Yura, S ^a   Yoshida, M ^a   Kakui, K ^a   Takemura, M ^a   Nuamah, M A ^a   Fujii, S ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interleukin 1 ; Labor; Mechanical stretching; Parturition; Prostacyclin

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; PROSTACYCLIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN F2; THROMBOXANE A2;

ADULT; ARTERY MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABOR; MECHANICS; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STIMULATION; STRETCHING; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UPREGULATION;

6-KETOPROSTAGLANDIN F1 ALPHA; BIOMECHANICS; CELLS, CULTURED; CORONARY VESSELS; DINOPROST; DINOPROSTONE; EPOPROSTENOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOMETRIUM; PERIODICITY; THROMBOXANE B2; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 1542297634     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09513590410001667850     Document Type: Article

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