Chronic hypoxia differentially up-regulates protein kinase C-mediated ovine uterine arterial contraction via actin polymerization signaling in pregnancy

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Xiao, DaLiao ^a   Huang, Xiaohui ^a   Zhang, Lubo ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin polymerization; Chronic hypoxia; Pregnancy; Protein kinase C (PKC); Uterine vascular contraction

Indexed keywords

2 (2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPHENYL)CHROMONE; ACTIN; CYTOCHALASIN B; ESTRADIOL; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NORADRENALIN; PHORBOL DIBUTYRATE; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN KINASE C; STEROID HORMONE; ENZYME ACTIVATOR; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CHRONIC HYPOXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG POTENCY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOXIA; MEDIATOR; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SEA LEVEL; SHEEP; TERM BIRTH; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERINE BLOOD VESSEL; UTERINE VASCULAR TONE; UTERUS CONTRACTION; ACTIN FILAMENT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERIZATION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UNITED STATES; UPREGULATION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CALIFORNIA; ENZYME ACTIVATORS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; NOREPINEPHRINE; POLYMERIZATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; UP-REGULATION; UTERINE ARTERY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 84877648194     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.104448     Document Type: Article

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