Glucose utilization and the P13-K pathway: Mechanisms for cell survival in preimplantation embryos

Reproduction

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 823-835

  Riley, Joan K ^a   Moley, Kelle H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 2; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 3; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 4; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER;

APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETUS MALFORMATION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT PROTEINS, FACILITATIVE; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 33744492081     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00645     Document Type: Review

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