Cyclic mechanical stretch augments hyaluronan production in cultured human uterine cervical fibroblast cells

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 659-665

  Takemura, Maki ^a   Itoh, Hiroaki ^a   Sagawa, Norimasa ^b   Yura, Shigeo ^a   Korita, Daizo ^a   Kakui, Kazuyo ^a   Kawamura, Makoto ^a   Hirota, Naoyoshi ^c   Maeda, Hiroshi ^d   Fujii, Shingo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Pharmacol Group R/D Labs   (Japan)

^d SEIKAGAKU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical ripening; Hyaluronan; Hyaluronan synthase; Mechanical stretch; Uterine cervix

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; SYNTHETASE; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CHILDBIRTH; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LABOR; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOLECULAR SIZE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING;

CELLS, CULTURED; CERVICAL RIPENING; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; PREGNANCY; REFLEX, STRETCH; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27944438906     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gah229     Document Type: Article

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