Oxytocin receptors differentially signal via Gq and G i proteins in pregnant and nonpregnant rat uterine myocytes: Implications for myometrial contractility

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 740-752

  Zhou, Xiao Bo ^a   Lutz, Susanne ^b   Steffens, Frank ^a   Korth, Michael ^a   Wieland, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; ISOPRENALINE; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION; UTERUS; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; WHOLE CELL;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GI-GO; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GQ-G11; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; MYOMETRIUM; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 33847186989     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2006-0220     Document Type: Article

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