Defective induction of the transcription factor interferon-stimulated gene factor-3 and interferon α insensitivity in human trophoblast cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 312-321

  Cross, James C ^a,b,c   Lam, Shirley ^a,b   Yagel, Simcha ^c,d   Werb, Zena ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; GENE INDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHOBLAST;

CHORIOCARCINOMA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENCEPHALOMYOCARDITIS VIRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELA CELLS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; INTERFERON-STIMULATED GENE FACTOR 3; INTERFERON-STIMULATED GENE FACTOR 3, GAMMA SUBUNIT; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; STAT2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TROPHOBLASTS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VESICULAR STOMATITIS-INDIANA VIRUS;

EID: 0032923935     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.2.312     Document Type: Article

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