Maternal-placental insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signaling and its importance to normal embryo-fetal development

Birth Defects Research Part B - Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 339-349

  Bowman, Christopher J ^a   Streck, Randal D ^a   Chapin, Robert E ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo fetal physiology; Maternal fetal interactions; Placenta placentation

Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR;

APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS DEATH; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MICROCEPHALY; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SOMATOMEDINS;

EID: 77955874341     PISSN: 15429733     EISSN: 15429741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrb.20249     Document Type: Review

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