Enhanced uterine artery stiffness in aged pregnant relaxin mutant mice is reversed with exogenous relaxin treatment1

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gooi, Jonathan H ^a   Richardson, Meghan L ^a   Jelinic, Maria ^a   Girling, Jane E ^b   Wlodek, Mary E ^a   Tare, Marianne ^c   Parry, Laura J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collagen; Extracellular matrix; Matrix metalloproteinase; Pregnancy; Relaxin gene knockout; Uterine artery

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; ELASTIN; GELATINASE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; RECOMBINANT RELAXIN; RELAXIN;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; MOUSE MUTANT; MYOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA WEIGHT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERINE ARTERY; WILD TYPE; ZYMOGRAPHY;

COLLAGEN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; PREGNANCY; RELAXIN GENE KNOCKOUT; UTERINE ARTERY;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GELATINASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RELAXIN; UTERINE ARTERY; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84889011225     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.108118     Document Type: Article

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