Nuclear progesterone receptors in the human pregnancy myometrium: Evidence that parturition involves functional progesterone withdrawal mediated by increased expression of progesterone receptor-A

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1927-1933

  Merlino, Amy A ^c   Welsh, Toni N ^a,b   Tan, Huiqing ^a,b   Li, Juan Yi ^a,b   Cannon, Vernon ^a,b   Mercer, Brian M ^c   Mesiano, Sam ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^c METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR A; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR B; CELL RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CESAREAN SECTION; DRUG MUSCLE LEVEL; FEMALE; GENOMICS; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABOR ONSET; MODULATION; MUSCLE CELL; MYOMETRIUM; PLASMID; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UTERUS; WESTERN BLOTTING; ADULT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYOMETRIUM; PARTURITION; PLASMIDS; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 34249843994     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2007-0077     Document Type: Article

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