Article
Kir7.1 is the physiological target for hormones and steroids that regulate uteroplacental function
2023-04-13
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<h4>Summary</h4> Preterm birth is a multifactorial syndrome that is detrimental to the well-being of both the mother and the newborn. During normal gestation, the myometrium is maintained in a quiescent state by the action of progesterone. As a steroid hormone, progesterone is thought to modify uterine and placental morphology by altering gene expression, but a nongenomic mode of action has long been suspected. H...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b94fcd23-7795-5815-88ce-ba1e9a0bd3de
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.04.11.536476
