Calcineurin/NFAT pathway: A novel regulator of parturition

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 44-50

  Tabata, Chisa ^a   Ogita, Kazuhide ^a   Sato, Keisuke ^a   Nakamura, Hitomi ^a   Qing, Zhang ^a   Negoro, Hidenori ^a   Kumasawa, Keiichi ^a   Temma Asano, Kumiko ^a   Tsutsui, Tateki ^a   Nishimori, Katsuhiko ^b   Kimura, Tadashi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FK506; Oxytocin; Oxytocin receptor deficient mouse; Suppression subtractive hybridization

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; TACROLIMUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABOR INDUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CALCINEURIN; DECIDUA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; OXYTOCIN; PARTURITION; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TACROLIMUS; UTERUS;

EID: 67149144181     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2009.00710.x     Document Type: Article

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