Hyaluronan, CD44 and its variant exons in human trophoblast invasion and placental angiogenesis

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 685-691

  Goshen, Ran ^a,b   Ariel, Ilana ^b   Shuster, Svetlana ^c   Hochberg, Abraham ^a   Vlodavsky, Israel ^b   De Groot, Nathan ^a   Ben Rafael, Zion ^d   Stern, Robert ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HASHARON HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

CD44; Hyaluronan; Invasion; Placenta; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

HERMES ANTIGEN; HYALURONIC ACID;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CHORIOCARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MYOMETRIUM; PLACENTA; PLACENTA ACCRETA; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS CANCER; VASCULARIZATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANTIGENS, CD44; CHORIOCARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; MYOMETRIUM; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PLACENTA; PLACENTA ACCRETA; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030224793     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/2.9.685     Document Type: Article

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