Uterine stretch and progesterone action

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Lei, K ^a,b   Chen, L ^a,c   Cryar, B J ^a,b   Hua, R ^a,b   Sooranna, S R ^a,b   Brosens, J J ^b   Bennett, P R ^b   Johnson, M R ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology   (United Kingdom)

^c THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COX2 GENE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ERK1 GENE; ERK2 GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UTERUS FUNCTION; UTERUS STRETCH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MYOMETRIUM; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 79956333907     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2010-2310     Document Type: Article

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