Mammalian target of rapamycin in the human placenta regulates leucine transport and is down-regulated in restricted fetal growth

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 582, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 449-459

  Roos, Sara ^a   Jansson, Nina ^a   Palmberg, Isabelle ^a   Säljö, Karin ^a   Powell, Theresa L ^a,b   Jansson, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; LEUCINE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; RAPAMYCIN; TAURINE TRANSPORTER; THREONINE; 2 METHYL 2 METHYLAMINOPROPIONIC ACID; INITIATION FACTOR 4E BINDING PROTEIN 1; S6 KINASE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLAST; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; UPREGULATION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADULT; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM L; BIRTH WEIGHT; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC VILLI; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOWN-REGULATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUCINE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 34347211057     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.129676     Document Type: Article

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