MicroRNA-200a serves a key role in the decline of progesterone receptor function leading to term and preterm labor

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 7529-7534

  Williams, Koriand'r C ^a,b   Renthal, Nora E ^a,b   Condon, Jennifer C ^c   Gerard, Robert D ^a   Mendelson, Carole R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20ALPHA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; MICRORNA 200A; MIFEPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; STAT5B PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LABOR; MOUSE; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; UPREGULATION; UTERUS;

20-ALPHA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICRORNAS; MIFEPRISTONE; MYOMETRIUM; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAT5 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UTERUS;

MUS;

EID: 84860821604     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200650109     Document Type: Article

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