A Novel in Vitro Model of Trophoblast-Mediated Decidual Blood Vessel Remodeling

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1821-1828

  Dunk, Caroline ^a   Petkovic, Ljiljana ^a   Baczyk, Dora ^a   Rossant, Janet ^a   Winterhager, Elke ^b   Lye, Stephen J ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN ANTIBODY; CD31 ANTIBODY; CD31 ANTIGEN; CDX2 ANTIBODY; CELL PROTEIN; CYTOKERATIN 7; CYTOKERATIN 7 ANTIBODY; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; OXYGEN; PARAFFIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; DECIDUALIZATION; EXPLANT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MYOMETRIUM; OXYGEN TENSION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MONITORING; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STAINING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TROPHOBLAST; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERINE BLOOD VESSEL; UTERINE SPIRAL ARTERY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ACTINS; ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD31; ARTERIES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC VILLI; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DECIDUA; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; KERATIN-7; KERATINS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 0347364751     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.LAB.0000101730.69754.5A     Document Type: Article

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