The effect of relaxin on cell proliferation in mouse cervix requires estrogen receptor α binding to estrogen response elements in stromal cells

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2811-2818

  Yao, Lijuan ^a,d   Cooke, Paul S ^b   Meling, Daryl D ^b   Shanks, Roger D ^b   Jameson, J Larry ^c   Sherwood, O David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; RELAXIN; SILICON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; FEMALE; KIDNEY CAPSULE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UTERINE CERVIX; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CERVIX UTERI; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OVARIECTOMY; PROTEIN BINDING; RELAXIN; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 77954531810     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-1327     Document Type: Article

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