Changes in expression and function of syncytin and its receptor, amino acid transport system B° (ASCT2), in human placental choriocarcinoma bewo cells during syncytialization

Placenta

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 536-541

  Kudo, Y ^a   Boyd, C A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 METHYL 2 METHYLAMINOPROPIONIC ACID; ALANINE; AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; CELL PROTEIN; FORSKOLIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLACENTA PROTEIN; PROTEIN AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM B; PROTEIN SYNCYTIN; SODIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 2 AMINO 2 METHYLPROPIONIC ACID; 2-(METHYLAMINO)ISOBUTYRIC ACID; SLC1A5 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SYNCYTIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CHORIOCARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS CANCER;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM ASC; AMINO ACIDS; AMINOISOBUTYRIC ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHORIOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; FORSKOLIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; HUMANS; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SODIUM; TROPHOBLASTS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036690495     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/plac.2002.0839     Document Type: Article

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