Vascular endothelial growth factor stimulates proliferation but not migration or invasiveness in human extravillous trophoblast

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 643-654

  Athanassiades, A ^a   Hamilton, G S ^a   Lala, P K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; HEPARAN SULFATE; HEPARIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; PLASMIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEOGLYCAN; RECEPTOR; THYMIDINE; VASCULOTROPIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TROPHOBLAST; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 0031873919     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.3.643     Document Type: Article

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