The Notch Signalling Pathway in the Development of the Mouse Placenta

Placenta

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 651-659

  Gasperowicz, M ^a   Otto, F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Tumor Center ZeTuP   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Notch; Placentation

Indexed keywords

DELTA LIKE 1 LIGAND; DELTA LIKE 2 LIGAND; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J RECOMBINATION SIGNAL SEQUENCE BINDING PROTEIN; JAGGED1; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; NOTCH2 RECEPTOR; NOTCH4 RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HEY 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HEY 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MASH 2; TRANSDUCIN LIKE ENHANCER OF SPLIT 1; TRANSDUCIN LIKE ENHANCER OF SPLIT 2; TRANSDUCIN LIKE ENHANCER OF SPLIT 3; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEATH; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREECLAMPSIA; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 49049103326     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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