Caspases rather than calpains mediate remodelling of the fodrin skeleton during human placental trophoblast fusion

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 336-345

  Gauster, M ^a   Siwetz, M ^a   Orendi, K ^a   Moser, G ^a   Desoye, G ^a   Huppertz, B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Human placenta; Trophoblast differentiation; Trophoblast fusion

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; CALPASTATIN; CALPEPTIN; CASPASE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CASPASE INHIBITOR; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYTOKINE; FODRIN; FORSKOLIN; GROWTH FACTOR; HORMONE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELL ISOLATION; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST;

CALPAIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CASPASES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYTOSKELETON; DOWN-REGULATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; OXYGEN; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 74249087272     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: 14765403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2009.133     Document Type: Article

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