Characterization of the concentration gradient of prostaglandin H synthase 2 mRNA throughout the pregnant baboon uterus

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 241-248

  Wu, Wen Xuan ^d   Smith, G C S ^a   Rose, J ^b   Nathanielsz, P W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HYSTERECTOMY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX EPITHELIUM; UTERINE CERVIX INCOMPETENCE; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CERVIX UTERI; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FEMALE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOENZYMES; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PAPIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERUS;

EID: 4444282920     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1820241     Document Type: Article

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