Table 2

Compilation of studies comparing differential gene expression in human myometrium associated with labor

Differentially Expressed Genes Detected


Differentially Expressed Genes Detected


Author & Reference

Platform

Number of Genes

Sought on Platform

Up-Regulated

Down- Regulated


Aguan et al., 2000 [94]

cDNA Blot

500

12

9

Chan et al., 2002 [95]

Suppressive subtraction hybridization

Not Stated

14

16

Esplin et al., 2005 [96]

cDNA microarray

6,912

22

30

Havelock et al., 2006 [97]

UniGEM-V

9,182

42

N.S.

Bukowski et al., 2006 [98]

Affymetrix

12,626

500 genes (70% Down-Regulated)

Bollapragada et al., 2009 [99]

Affymetrix

12,626

110

29


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