Corticotropin-releasing hormone interacts with interleukin-1β to regulate prostaglandin H synthase-2 expression in human myometrium during pregnancy and labor

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2864-2875

  Markovic, Danijela ^a,b   Bari, Muhammad F ^a,b   Lu, Buyu ^a,b   Vatish, Manu ^a,b   Grammatopoulos, Dimitris K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MESSENGER RNA; SYNAPTOTAGMIN I;

ARTICLE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HORMONE RECEPTOR TRANSLOCATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LABOR; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADULT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MYOMETRIUM; NF-KAPPA B; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA;

EID: 84879932916     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2013-1094     Document Type: Article

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