Differential expression of L- and T-type calcium channels between longitudinal and circular muscles of the rat myometrium during pregnancy

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 80-85

  Ohkubo, Tsuyako ^a   Kawarabayashi, Tatsuhiko ^b   Inoue, Yoshihito ^b   Kitamura, Kenji ^a  

^a FUKUOKA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium channel; L type Ca channels; mRNA expression; Pregnant rat myometrium; T type Ca channels; Voltage dependent Ca channels

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; MESSENGER RNA; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERTROPHY; KINETICS; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 18944367111     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000082333     Document Type: Article

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