Effect of prolonged c-kit receptor inhibition by imatinib mesylate on the uterine contractility of pregnant rabbits

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 108-111

  Hutchings, G ^a,b   Gevaert, T ^a   Deprest, J ^a   Nilius, B ^a   De Ridder, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Center for Surgical Technologies   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Imatinib mesylate; Myometrial interstitial cells; Myometrium; Parturition

Indexed keywords

IMATINIB; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; UTERUS BIOPSY; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYOMETRIUM; PIPERAZINES; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; PYRIMIDINES; RABBITS; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 40349102173     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109080     Document Type: Article

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