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The Effects of Extracellular Calcium-Sensing Receptor Ligands on the Contractility of Pregnant Human Myometrium In Vitro

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Title
The Effects of Extracellular Calcium-Sensing Receptor Ligands on the Contractility of Pregnant Human Myometrium In Vitro
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Reproductive Sciences, December 2013
DOI 10.1177/1933719112468949
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Denis J. Crankshaw, Marc J. Pistilli, Yvonne M. O’Brien, Eva M. Sweeney, Peter Dockery, Alison C. Holloway, John J. Morrison

Abstract

Ligands for extracellular calcium-sensing (CaS) receptors inhibit oxytocin-induced contractions of the rat's uterus. In this study, we investigated whether the CaS receptor ligands calindol, cinacalcet, and calhex 231 have similar effects on pregnant human myometrium. We compared their effects to those of the calcium-channel blocker nifedipine. In conventional concentration-effect experiments, both the mean contractile force (MCF) and the maximum amplitude of contractions induced by 1 nmol/L oxytocin were inhibited by nifedipine. Calindol and cinacalcet were ineffective as inhibitors, while calhex-231 produced partial inhibition. When single 10 μmol/L doses were applied calhex-231 produced a slowly developing inhibition, reducing the MCF to 38%, and amplitude to 34%, of vehicle controls after 1 hour. In similar experiments, calindol was ineffective while cinacalcet weakly inhibited only the amplitude. Immunohistochemistry revealed sparse expression of CaS receptors in pregnant human myometrium.

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Unknown 13 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 38%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 23%
Other 2 15%
Student > Master 1 8%
Unknown 2 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 3 23%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 8%
Psychology 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 3 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 July 2013.
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#15,274,524
of 22,714,025 outputs
Outputs from Reproductive Sciences
#499
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#189,888
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Outputs of similar age from Reproductive Sciences
#34
of 74 outputs
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