Evidence for a correlation between trophoblast invasiveness and STAT3 activity

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 316-321

  Corvinus, Florian M ^a   Fitzgerald, Justine S ^a   Friedrich, Karlheinz ^a   Markert, Udo R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choriocarcinoma; Invasion; Placenta; Pregnancy; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT3ALPHA PROTEIN; STAT3BETA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL INVASION; CELL MATURATION; CHORIOCARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHOBLAST; TYPES OF STUDY;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHORIOCARCINOMA; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TROPHOBLASTS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0141459118     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0897.2003.00099.x     Document Type: Article

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