Expression of prothrombin and protease activated receptors in human myometrium during pregnancy and labor

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-26

  O'Brien, Margaret ^a   Morrison, John J ^a,b   Smith, Terry J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Labor; Myometrium; Parturition; Pregnancy; Protease activated receptors; Prothrombin; Uterus

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10A; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEINASE; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 1; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 3; PROTHROMBIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LABOR; MICROSCOPY; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MYOMETRIUM; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PROTHROMBIN; RECEPTORS, PROTEINASE-ACTIVATED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 38149015521     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.062182     Document Type: Article

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