Cytotrophoblasts: Masters of disguise

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 610-611

  Redman, Christopher W G ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; INTEGRIN; LAMININ; LAMININ RECEPTOR; UVOMORULIN; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLASTOCYST; CELL INVASION; CHORION VILLUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; ENDOTHELIUM; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NIDATION; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 0030941258     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0697-610     Document Type: Short Survey

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