Corticotropin-releasing hormone activates connexin 43 via activator protein-1 transcription factor in human myometrial smooth muscle cells

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 293, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Wu, Xiang ^a   Shen, Hong ^b   Yu, Ling ^a   Peng, Mei ^a   Lai, Wei Si ^a   Ding, Yi Ling ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

c Fos activator protein 1; Human myometrial smooth muscle cells; Onset of labor

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; LUCIFERASE; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN C FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MYOMETRIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; MYOMETRIUM; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 37149018694     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00249.2007     Document Type: Article

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