Expression of autotaxin, an ectoenzyme that produces lysophosphatidic acid, in human placenta

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 90-95

  Iwasawa, Yuki ^a   Fujii, Tomoyuki ^a   Nagamatsu, Takeshi ^a   Kawana, Kei ^a   Okudaira, Shinichi ^b   Miura, Shiho ^a   Matsumoto, Junko ^a   Tomio, Ayako ^a   Hyodo, Hironobu ^a   Yamashita, Takahiro ^a   Oda, Katsutoshi ^a   Kozuma, Shiro ^a   Aoki, Junken ^b   Yatomi, Yutaka ^a   Taketani, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autotaxin; Lysophosphatidic acid; Lysophospholipase D; Placenta; Pregnancy; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

AUTOTAXIN; BETA ACTIN; LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLAST;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPIDS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHOSPHODIESTERASE I; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; PYROPHOSPHATASES; RNA, MESSENGER; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 67650658819     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2009.00715.x     Document Type: Article

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