Villous cytotrophoblast regulation of the syncytial apoptotic cascade in the human placenta

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 495-508

  Huppertz, Berthold ^a   Frank, Hans Georg ^a   Kingdom, John C P ^b   Reister, Frank ^a   Kaufmann, Peter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); FAS ANTIGEN; FAS LIGAND; LAMININ; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PLACENTA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; TROPHOBLASTS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031754353     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004180050311     Document Type: Article

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