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This study characterized the in vitro contractile response of cultured human pregnant myometrial cells to ET-1 known to induce in vitro contractions of intact uterine smooth muscle strips. Cultured myometrial cells incorporated into collagen lattices have the capacity to reduce the size of these lattices, referred to as lattice contraction. Neither the selective conventional PKC isoform inhibitor, G\u00f6-6976, or rottlerin affected myometrial cell-mediated gel contraction by ET-1, whereas this effect was blocked by LY-294002. We found that treatment of myometrial cell lattices with an inhibitory peptide specific for PKC\u03b6 or with an antisense against PKC\u03b6 resulted in a significant loss of ET-1-induced contraction. Evidence is also presented by using confocal microscopy that ET-1 induced translocation of PKC\u03b6 to a structure coincident with the actin-rich microfilaments of the cytoskeleton. We have shown that PKC\u03b6 has a role in the actin organization in ET-1-stimulated cells. Accordingly, our results suggest that PKC\u03b6 plays a role in myometrial contraction in pregnant women. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1152\/ajpcell.00040.2003","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,14]],"date-time":"2013-05-14T00:16:02Z","timestamp":1368490562000},"page":"C599-C607","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":35,"title":["A critical role for PKC\u03b6 in endothelin-1-induced uterine  contractions at the end of pregnancy"],"prefix":"10.1152","volume":"285","author":[{"given":"G.","family":"Di Liberto","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"E.","family":"Dallot","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"I.","family":"Eude-Le Parco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"D.","family":"Cabrol","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"F.","family":"Ferr\u00e9","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"M.","family":"Breuiller-Fouch\u00e9","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"24","reference":[{"key":"REF1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Arntzen KJ,  Kjollesdal AM, Halgunset J, Vatten L, and Austgulen R. 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