IFPA Award in Placentology Lecture: Biology of the placental syncytiotrophoblast - Myths and facts

Placenta

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL., 2010, Pages

  Huppertz, B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Morphology; Placenta; Pre eclampsia; Syncytiotrophoblast; Villous trophoblast

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 1; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 3; IKAROS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHORION VILLUS; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; DIABETES MELLITUS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INFLAMMATION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; ISCHEMIA; MATERNAL BLOOD; MICROVILLUS; NUCLEAR SHAPE; NUCLEOLUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA VILLUS; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REOXYGENATION; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; SYNCYTIAL KNOT; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; SYNCYTIUM;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 76749148121     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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