Progesterone receptor-A and -B have opposite effects on proinflammatory gene expression in human myometrial cells: Implications for progesterone actions in human pregnancy and parturition

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Tan, Huiqing ^a   Yi, Lijuan ^a   Rote, Neal S ^a   Hurd, William W ^a   Mesiano, Sam ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

I KAPPA B ALPHA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR A; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR B; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL LINE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENE; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MYOMETRIUM; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE;

EID: 84860786028     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2011-3251     Document Type: Article

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