Physiological smooth muscle cell apoptosis contributes to the uterine vascular remodeling in human early pregnancy

Circulation Research

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 754-756

  Helwig, Jean Jacques ^a,b   Le Bouteiller, Philippe ^a,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c CHU PURPAN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 8; DEATH RECEPTOR 4; DEATH RECEPTOR 5; DNA FRAGMENT; FAS ANTIGEN; FAS ASSOCIATED DEATH DOMAIN PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; HLA G ANTIGEN; PROTEIN P53; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; EDITORIAL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TROPHOBLAST; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UTERINE BLOOD VESSEL; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 34147113763     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.0000263394.59727.ca     Document Type: Editorial

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