Oxytocin activates NF-κB-mediated inflammatory pathways in human gestational tissues

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 403, Issue , 2015, Pages 64-77

  Kim, Sung Hye ^a   MacIntyre, David A ^a   Firmino Da Silva, Maria ^a   Blanks, Andrew M ^b   Lee, Yun S ^a   Thornton, Steven ^c   Bennett, Phillip R ^a   Terzidou, Vasso ^a,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amnion; Inflammation; Myometrium; NF B; Oxytocin; Parturition

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; RANTES; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SYNAPTOTAGMIN I; CCL5 PROTEIN, HUMAN; I KAPPA B KINASE; IKBKB PROTEIN, HUMAN; IL6 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MAP2K1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MAP2K2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 2; OXTR PROTEIN, HUMAN; PTGS2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA;

AMNION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; LABOR INDUCTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; ADULT; AGONISTS; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIRTH; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE;

ADULT; AMNION; CHEMOKINE CCL5; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; I-KAPPA B KINASE; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MAP KINASE KINASE 2; MYOMETRIUM; OXYTOCIN; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA;

EID: 84921986532     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2014.11.008     Document Type: Article

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