Function-specific intracellular signaling pathways downstream of heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor utilized by human trophoblasts

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 921-929

  Jessmon, Philip ^a,b,c   Kilburn, Brian A ^a   Romero, Roberto ^c   Leach, Richard E ^d   Armant, D Randall ^a,b,c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AKT; Apoptosis; Cell differentiation; Cell migration; Mitogen activated protein kinases; Phosphoinositide 3 kinase; Pregnancy; Signal transduction; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

1,4 DIAMINO 1,4 BIS(2 AMINOPHENYLTHIO) 2,3 DICYANOBUTADIENE; 2 MORPHOLINO 8 PHENYLCHROMONE; 4 (4 FLUOROPHENYL) 2 (4 METHYLSULFINYLPHENYL) 5 (4 PYRIDYL)IMIDAZOLE; ANTHRA[1,9 CD]PYRAZOL 6(2H) ONE; HEPARIN BINDING EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 14; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NIDATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLAST;

CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL LINE; CELL MOVEMENT; CHORIONIC VILLI; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 14; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; REPERFUSION INJURY; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 77953834068     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.082305     Document Type: Article

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