Effect of α1-adrenoceptor subtype-selective inverse agonists on non-pregnant and late-pregnant cervical resistance in vitro in the rat

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 42-47

  Kolarovszki Sipiczki, Zoltán ^a   Gáspár, Róbert ^a   Ducza, Eszter ^a   Páldy, Eszter ^b   Benyhe, Sándor ^b   Borsodi, Anna ^b   Falkay, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

1 adrenoceptor subtypes; 1 adrenoceptor inverse agonists; 35S GTP S binding; Cervical resistance; Cervical ripening; G i protein; Pertussis toxin; Premature labour

Indexed keywords

2 [[2 (2,6 DIMETHOXYPHENOXY)ETHYL]AMINOMETHYL] 1,4 BENZODIOXAN; 8 [2 [4 (2 METHOXYPHENYL) 1 PIPERAZINYL]ETHYL] 8 AZASPIRO[4.5]DECANE 7,9 DIONE; AH 11110A; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE 5' O (3 THIOTRIPHOSPHATE); MESSENGER RNA; PERTUSSIS TOXIN; PHENYLEPHRINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR ALPHA(1A); ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR ALPHA(1B); ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR ALPHA(1D); ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DIOXANE DERIVATIVE; IMINE; PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE; PIPERIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERINE CERVIX; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANIMALS; CERVIX UTERI; DIOXANES; FEMALE; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; IMINES; MALE; PHENYLEPHRINE; PIPERAZINES; PIPERIDINES; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-1; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33846080546     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2007.04529.x     Document Type: Article

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