Progesterone-regulated caspase 3 action in the mouse may play a role in uterine quiescence during pregnancy through fragmentation of uterine myocyte contractile proteins

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 928-934

  Jeyasuria, Pancharatnam ^a   Wetzel, Jaime ^a   Bradley, Megan ^a   Subedi, Kalpana ^a   Condon, Jennifer C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Apoptosis; Caspase 3; Myometrium; Parturition; Pregnancy; Progesterone; Uterus

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; LABOR; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; UTERUS; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CASPASE 3; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR ONSET; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERINE CONTRACTION; UTERUS;

EID: 65949093262     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.070425     Document Type: Article

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