Chymotrypsin-Like Protease (Chymase) Mediates Endothelial Activation by Factors Derived From Preeclamptic Placentas

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 905-913

  Gu, Yang ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Alexander, J Steven ^a   Groome, Lynn J ^a   Wang, Yuping ^a  

^a Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

Author keywords

adhesion molecules; CLP chymase; Endothelial activation; preeclampsia

Indexed keywords

CHYMASE; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PADGEM PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; UPREGULATION;

CELLS, CULTURED; CHYMASES; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; E-SELECTIN; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; P-SELECTIN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLACENTA; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE-1;

EID: 70350728204     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719109337333     Document Type: Article

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