Characterization of the myometrial transcriptome in women with an arrest of dilatation during labor

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 665-681

  Chaemsaithong, Piya ^a   Madan, Ichchha ^a   Romero, Roberto ^f   Than, Nandor Gabor ^a   Tarca, Adi L ^b,c   Draghici, Sorin ^c   Bhatti, Gaurav ^b   Yeo, Lami ^a   Mazor, Moshe ^d   Kim, Chong Jai ^e   Hassan, Sonia S ^a   Chaiworapongsa, Tinnakorn ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c Wayne State University   (United States)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^e University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^f HUTZEL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiopoietin like 4 (ANGPTL4); Arrest disorders; Chemokine (C C motif) ligand 2 (CCL2); Metallothionein (MT); Myometrium; Nitric oxide synthase (NOS); Parturition; Pregnancy; Systems biology; TGF signaling pathway; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ADAM METALLOPEPTIDASE WITH THROMBOSPONDIN TYPE 1 MOTIF 9; ADAM PROTEIN; ANGIOPOIETIN; ANGIOPOIETIN LIKE 4; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 4; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; LIOTHYRONINE; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN 1A; METALLOTHIONEIN II; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; THYROXINE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS; ARREST OF DILATATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; LABOR COMPLICATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOMETRIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BINDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION;

ANGIOPOIETINS; ANOXIA; CHEMOKINE CCL2; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LABOR STAGE, FIRST; METALLOTHIONEIN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOMETRIUM; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84888628241     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jpm-2013-0086     Document Type: Article

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