Kazuo Matsui

Vaginal pessaries of gemeprost were administered for evaluation of the vascular responsiveness to angiotensin II in the second trimester pregnancy. The mean arterial blood pressure and the vasosensitivity to A-II measured before and after t…

Myosin light chain kinase activity and the amount of calmodulin were measured in rabbit myometrium after the rabbits had been treated with oestrogen, progesterone and human chorionic gonadotrophin, and also during pregnancy. Injections of o…

We report on hormonal regulation of protein kinases in the rabbit myometrium. The injection of estrogen or progesterone produced 5.2 +/- 0.7- or 4.7 +/- 0.4-fold increases, respectively, of the total activity when histone was used as the su…