Platelet-endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 is expressed by a subpopulation of human trophoblasts: A possible mechanism for trophoblast- endothelial interaction during haemochorial placentation

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 357-367

  Coukos, G ^a   Makrigiannakis, A ^a   Amin, K ^a   Albelda, S M ^a   Coutifaris, C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelium; Implantation; PECAM 1; Placenta; Trophobalst

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CHORION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; TROPHOBLAST;

ANTIGENS, CD31; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; PLACENTA; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; TROPHOBLASTS; UMBILICAL VEINS;

EID: 0031980007     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.4.357     Document Type: Article

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