Transcriptional regulation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase expression in uterine artery endothelial cells by c-Jun/AP-1

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 279, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 39-51

  Qian, Xiao Xian ^a   Mata Greenwood, Eugenia ^a   Liao, Wu Xiang ^a   Zhang, Honghai ^a   Zheng, Jing ^b   Chen, Dong bao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

c Jun AP 1; Endothelial nitric oxide synthase expression; Uterine artery endothelial cells

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C JUN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHEEP; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UTERINE ARTERY;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; UTERUS;

EID: 35649010337     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2007.08.017     Document Type: Article

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