Table 1.

FP expression and its physiological/pathological function.

Tissue/cell distribution	Physiological/pathological process	References
Ovary	Luteolysis, parturition	Sugimoto et al. (1997), Gross et al. (1998), Saito et al. (2003)
Myometrium	Uterine contraction	Brodt-Eppley and Myatt (1999), Fischer et al. (2008)
Ocular vasculature; iris sphincter; ocular circular muscles	Aqueous humor homeostasis	Mukhopadhyay et al. (2001)
Renal distal convoluted tubule, cortical collecting duct	Water and electrolyte reabsorption	Saito et al. (2003), Hebert et al. (2005), Hao and Breyer (2008)
Juxtaglomerular apparatus	Renin secretion; blood pressure regulation	Yu et al. (2009)
Lung fibroblast	Pulmonary fibrosis	Oga et al. (2009)
Cardiac fibroblast; cardiomyocyte	Myocardial fibrosis; arrhythmias; myocyte hypertrophy	Lai et al. (1996), Kunapuli et al. (1997), Li et al. (1997), Yoshida et al. (2002), Takayama et al. (2005), Almirza et al. (2008), Wang et al. (2009)
Vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC)	VSMC hypertrophy; vasoconstriction	Whittle et al. (1985b), Rice et al. (2008), Yu et al. (2009)