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Uterus

 
 
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Disease relevance of Uterus

 

Psychiatry related information on Uterus

  • OBJECTIVE: Erythromycin is a stimulant of motor activity in the stomach, but its effects on the uterus have not been studied and only its antibiotic properties have been considered in the treatment of idiopathic preterm labor [6].
  • The concept of hysteria is traced from Hippocrates, where it was though to be caused by a wandering uterus, through Galen and up to Freud [7].
  • P treatment significantly increased superficial Ca2+-binding and decreased electrical (field stimulation) and pharmacological (oxytocine, prostaglandin F2 alfa) excitability of Pp uterus after a latency period of 8--12 h [8].
  • We conclude that estrogen impairs the defense mechanisms of the genital tract of non-castrated female rats, enhancing bacterial growth in the vagina and ascending infection to the uterus, tubes and ovaries [9].
  • During the critical period of receptor maturation within the first 5 days after birth female rats were treated with benzpyrene three times and their uterus estrogen receptor characteristic were examined in adulthood [10].
 

High impact information on Uterus

  • In the uterus, returning estrogen action concomitantly upregulates endometrial oxytocin receptors [11].
  • Thus the uterus can be regarded as a transducer that converts intermittent neural signals from the hypothalamus, in the form of episodic oxytocin secretion, into luteolytic pulses of uterine PGF2alpha [11].
  • In mammalian uterus and other smooth muscle target cells, there is no evidence for direct involvement of cyclic AMP in the contractile response to oxytocin and other neurohypophysial peptides [12].
  • Mutations in AMH or AMHR2 in humans and mice disrupt signaling, producing male pseudohermaphrodites that possess oviducts and uteri [13].
  • Female Nhlh2-/- mice reared alone are hypogonadal, but when reared in the presence of males, their ovaries and uteri develop normally and they are fertile [14].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Uterus

 

Biological context of Uterus

 

Anatomical context of Uterus

  • Loss of progesterone action may permit the return of estrogen action, both centrally in the hypothalamus and peripherally in the uterus [11].
  • XY Tfm/MIS double mutants developed as females, with a uterus, coiled oviducts, and no male reproductive organs except undescended dysfunctional testes [24].
  • IRAG was found in many tissues including aorta, trachea and uterus, and was localized perinuclearly after heterologous expression in COS-7 cells [25].
  • The production of MIS in the male fetus brings about the regression of the Müllerian ducts, the anlagen of the uterus, oviducts, and upper vagina [26].
  • There are reports that estrogen is made by the rabbit blastocyst (61), and estrogens have been used to induce implantation in mice (62), but whether estrogens act through ERs in the embryo or in the maternal uterus is not known [27].
 

Associations of Uterus with chemical compounds

 

Gene context of Uterus

  • Oestrogenic actions of AhR agonists were detected in wild-type ovariectomized mouse uteri, but were absent in AhR-/- or ER-alpha-/- ovariectomized mice [32].
  • We have recently demonstrated that HOXA10 is expressed in the adult human uterus [33].
  • P-cadherin is a subclass of Ca2+-dependent cell-cell adhesion molecules present in mouse placenta, where its localization suggests a function of connecting the embryo to the uterus (Nose, A., and M. Takeichi. 1986. J. Cell Biol. 103:2649-2658) [34].
  • Many of the effects of estrogens on the uterus are mediated by ERalpha, the predominant ER in the mature organ [35].
  • The estrogen receptor alpha knockout (ERKO) mouse uterus was observed to express PR mRNA that cannot be induced by estrogen [36].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Uterus

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