Estrogen receptor (ER) expression and function in the pregnant human myometrium: Estradiol via ERα activates ERK1/2 signaling in term myometrium

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 227-238

  Welsh, Toni ^a,b   Johnson, Matrika ^a   Yi, Lijuan ^a   Tan, Huiqing ^a   Rahman, Roksana ^a   Merlino, Amy ^a   Zakar, Tamas ^b,c   Mesiano, Sam ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; OXYTOCIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA ISOLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL LINE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MYOMETRIUM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84863398216     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: 14796805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/JOE-11-0358     Document Type: Article

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