Apoptosis cascade progresses during turnover of human trophoblast: Analysis of villous cytotrophoblast and syncytial fragments in vitro

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1687-1702

  Huppertz, Berthold ^a   Frank, Hans Georg ^a   Reister, Frank ^a   Kingdom, John ^b   Korr, Hubert ^a   Kaufmann, Peter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; EFFECTOR CELL; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NICK END LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GIANT CELLS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 0033397918     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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