Modeling hormonal and inflammatory contributions to preterm and term labor using uterine temporal transcriptomics

BMC Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Migale, Roberta ^a   MacIntyre, David A ^a   Cacciatore, Stefano ^a   Lee, Yun S ^a   Hagberg, Henrik ^b,c   Herbert, Bronwen R ^a,d   Johnson, Mark R ^a,d   Peebles, Donald ^e   Waddington, Simon N ^e,f   Bennett, Phillip R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Myometrium; Preterm labor; Progesterone; RNA Seq; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E SYNTHASE; PROSTAGLANDIN E SYNTHASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTACOID; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; DNA LIBRARY; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEUKOCYTE; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PREMATURE LABOR; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BIRTH; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; INFLAMMATION; LABOR; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYOMETRIUM; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UTERUS;

EID: 84973542335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0632-4     Document Type: Article

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