Purinergic signalling to rat ovarian smooth muscle: Changes in P2X receptor expression during pregnancy

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-47

  Katugampola, Harshini ^a   Burnstock, Geoffrey ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemistry; Ovarian smooth muscle; P2 receptor; Pregnancy; Rat (Sprague Dawley)

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PURINE P2X RECEPTOR; PURINE P2X1 RECEPTOR; PURINE P2X2 RECEPTOR; PURINE P2X3 RECEPTOR; PURINE P2X4 RECEPTOR; PURINE P2X5 RECEPTOR; PURINE P2X6 RECEPTOR; PURINE P2X7 RECEPTOR; PURINE P2Y RECEPTOR; PURINE P2Y1 RECEPTOR; PURINE P2Y2 RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE SECTION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOMETRIUM; OVARY; PREGNANCY; RATS; RECEPTORS, PURINERGIC P2; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 9144239522     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000081091     Document Type: Article

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