Molecular evidence of functional progesterone withdrawal in human myometrium

How human labour is initiated in the presence of high circulating progesterone is still unclear. Here, the authors show that during a reduction in myometrial nuclear progesterone levels, there is an increased transcription of the key labour gene, Cx43, mediated by unliganded progesterone receptor A.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lubna Nadeem, Oksana Shynlova, Elzbieta Matysiak-Zablocki, Sam Mesiano, Xuesen Dong, Stephen Lye
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11565