Prokineticins: Novel mediators of inflammatory and contractile pathways at parturition?

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 311-319

  Catalano, Rob D ^a   Lannagan, Tamsin R M ^a   Gorowiec, Marta ^a   Denison, Fiona C ^a   Norman, Jane E ^a   Jabbour, Henry N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Labour; Preterm labour; Prokineticins

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA ANTAGONIST; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; NEUTROPHIL COLLAGENASE; PROKINETICIN 1 RECEPTOR; PROKINETICIN 2 RECEPTOR; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LABOR INDUCTION; LABOR ONSET; NONHUMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; NEUROPEPTIDES; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; UTERINE CONTRACTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR, ENDOCRINE-GLAND-DERIVED;

EID: 77954072909     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gaq014     Document Type: Review

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