Quantification of pelvic organ prolapse in mice: Vaginal protease activity precedes increased MOPQ scores in fibulin 5 knockout Mice 1

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 407-414

  Wieslander, Cecilia K ^a   Rahn, David D ^a   Mclntire, Donald D ^a   Acevedo, Jesús F ^a   Drewes, Peter G ^a   Yanagisawa, Hiromi ^b   Word, R Ann ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Dallas Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastic fibers; Female reproductive tract; Matrix degradation; Matrix metalloproteases; Mmp2; Mmp9; Pelvic organ prolapse; Vagina; Zymography

Indexed keywords

FIBULIN 5; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ELASTIC TISSUE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 2; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, ANIMAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UTERINE PROLAPSE; VAGINA;

MUS;

EID: 62149149532     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.072900     Document Type: Article

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