Cell-cell-communication during placental development and possible implications for trophoblast proliferation and differentiation

Placenta

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL.1, 2000, Pages

  Winterhager, E ^a,c   Kaufmann, P ^b   Gruemmer, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HELA CELL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TRANSFECTION; TROPHOBLASTS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 4243499697     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/plac.1999.0516     Document Type: Article

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