Pelvic organ prolapse in fibulin-5 knockout mice: Pregnancy-induced changes in elastic fiber homeostasis in mouse vagina

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 578-589

  Drewes, Peter G ^a   Yanagisawa, Hiromi ^b   Starcher, Barry ^c   Hornstra, Ian ^d   Csiszar, Katalin ^e   Marinis, Spyridon I ^a   Keller, Patrick ^a   Word, R Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMOSINE; ELASTASE; ELASTIN; FIBULIN 5; LYSYL OXIDASE LIKE 1; PROTEIN LYSINE 6 OXIDASE; TROPOELASTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FBLN5 PROTEIN, MOUSE; LOXL1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTIC FIBER; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX; VAGINA; ANIMAL; ELASTIC TISSUE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PELVIS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PUERPERIUM; TISSUE INJURY; VAGINA DISEASE;

AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANIMALS; ELASTIC TISSUE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PELVIS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROLAPSE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VAGINA; VAGINAL DISEASES;

EID: 33947501362     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2007.060662     Document Type: Article

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