Recombinant H2 relaxin inhibits apoptosis and induces cell proliferation in cultured leiomyoma cells without affecting those in cultured normal myometrial cells

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 734-741

  Suzuki, Kaho ^a   Nakabayashi, Koji ^a   Yamada, Ai Y ^a   Lodhi, Romana S Z ^a   Hazama, Rhoichi ^a   Ebina, Yasuhiko ^a   Yamada, Hideto ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; leiomyoma; proliferation; relaxin; uterus

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CYCLINE; LGR7 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT H2 RELAXIN; RECOMBINANT RELAXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; LEIOMYOMA; MYOMETRIUM; NICK END LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UTERUS MYOMA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASPASE 3; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MYOMETRIUM; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RELAXIN; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84857781490     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.12.011     Document Type: Article

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