Expression of secreted frizzled-related protein 4 in the primate placenta

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 104-110

  White, Lloyd ^a   Suganthini, Ganapathipillai ^b   Friis, R ^b   Dharmarajan, A ^a   Charles, Adrian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Placenta; Primate; Secreted frizzled related protein 4; SFRP4

Indexed keywords

SECRETED FRIZZLED RELATED PROTEIN 4;

AMNION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIMATE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 58649103779     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60431-2     Document Type: Article

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