Focal adhesion signaling is required for myometrial ERK activation and contractile phenotype switch before labor

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 129-140

  Li, Yunping ^a,c   Gallant, Cynthia ^c   Malek, Sabah ^c   Morgan, Kathleen G ^b,c  

^a Department of Anesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BOSTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

ERK activation; ERK targeting and Src; Focal adhesion signaling; Labor; Myometrium

Indexed keywords

4 AMINO 7 TERT BUTYL 5 (4 CHLOROPHENYL)PYRAZOLO[3,4 D]PYRIMIDINE; CALDESMON; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; PAXILLIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAF PROTEIN; VINCULIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; FOCAL ADHESION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRAUTERINE PRESSURE; LABOR; LABOR ONSET; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ANIMALS; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; FOCAL ADHESION PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; FOCAL ADHESIONS; MYOMETRIUM; PAXILLIN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS A-RAF; PYRIMIDINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SRC-FAMILY KINASES; UTERINE CONTRACTION; UTERUS;

EID: 33845621387     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: 10974644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.21033     Document Type: Article

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