Insights into parturition biology from genetically altered mice

Pediatric Research

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 581-589

  Ratajczak, Christine K ^a   Muglia, Louis J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

15 HYDROXYPROSTAGLANDIN DEHYDROGENASE; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CYTOKINE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXYTOCIN; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN; RELAXIN; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE 1; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIRTH; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORPUS LUTEUM; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HORMONE METABOLISM; LABOR INDUCTION; LUTEOLYSIS; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

20-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; CERVICAL RIPENING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONNEXIN 43; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROXYPROSTAGLANDIN DEHYDROGENASES; LUTEOLYSIS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OXYTOCIN; PARTURITION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PREMATURE BIRTH; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDINS; PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN A; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 57849126736     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e31818718d2     Document Type: Review

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