Immortalization and characterization of human myometrial cells from term-pregnant patients using a telomerase expression vector

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 685-695

  Soloff, Melvyn S ^a,b   Jeng, Yow Jiun ^a   Ilies, Monica ^a   Soloff, Solweig L ^a   Izban, Michael G ^a   Wood, Thomas G ^b   Panova, Neli I ^b   Velagaleti, Gopalrao V N ^b   Anderson, Garland D ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Human myometrial cells; Immortalization; Oxytocin; Signal pathways; Telomerase

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; I KAPPA B ALPHA; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST; PROTEIN KINASE B; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL AGING; CELL CULTURE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL LINE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPE; MULTINUCLEAR CELL; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS FUNCTION;

CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; I-KAPPA B PROTEINS; INTERLEUKIN-1; KARYOTYPING; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPIDS; MYOMETRIUM; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELOMERASE;

VECTORS;

EID: 5044250023     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gah086     Document Type: Article

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