TRP channels in female reproductive organs and placenta

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 704, Issue , 2011, Pages 909-928

  Dörr, Janka ^a   Fecher Trost, Claudia ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Blastocyte; Fallopian tube; Fertility; Labour pain; Mammary gland; Ovary; Placenta; Syncytiotrophoblast; Uterus

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCYSTIN; POLYCYSTIN 2; POLYCYSTIN 3; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 1; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 2; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 3; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 4; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 5; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 6; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 7; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M2; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M4; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M6; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 2; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 3; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 4; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 5; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 6;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYTE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; HUMAN; LABOR; MAMMARY GLAND; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE TRANSPORT; OVIDUCT; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; ANIMAL; FEMALE; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNELS;

EID: 79959780473     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0265-3_47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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