Myometrial prostaglandin E2 synthetic enzyme mRNA expression: Spatial and temporal variations with pregnancy and labour

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 625-631

  Sooranna, S R ^a   Grigsby, P L ^b   Engineer, N ^a   Liang, Z ^a,c   Sun, K ^b   Myatt, L ^b   Johnson, Mark R ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Labour; Prostaglandin synthesis; Stretch; Uterine smooth muscle cells

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; ISOMERASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A; PROSTAGLANDIN E SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LABOR; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; UTERUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TIME;

CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DINOPROSTONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; MYOMETRIUM; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 33750212753     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gal061     Document Type: Article

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