Human chorionic villous macrophages as a fetal biological shield from maternal chorionic gonadotropin

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 299-306

  Katabuchi, Hidetaka ^a   Ohba, Takashi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human; Human chorionic gonadotropin; Luteinizing hormone chorionic gonadotropin receptor; Macrophage; Placenta

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE;

CELL ISOLATION; CHORION VILLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; CYTOPLASM; DEGRADATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNALIZATION; MACROPHAGE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PLACENTA; REVIEW; STEROIDOGENESIS;

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC VILLI; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; PREGNANCY;

EID: 43149111043     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2008.01030.x     Document Type: Review

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