The choriocarcinoma cell line BeWo: Syncytial fusion and expression of syncytium-specific proteins

Reproduction

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 759-766

  Orendi, Kristina ^a   Gauster, Martin ^a   Moser, Gerit ^a   Meiri, Hamutal ^b   Huppertz, Berthold ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Diagnostic Technologies Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE PLACENTA ISOENZYME; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FORSKOLIN; N [2 (4 BROMOCINNAMYLAMINO)ETHYL] 5 ISOQUINOLINESULFONAMIDE; PLACENTA PROTEIN; PLACENTAL PROTEIN 13; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL COUNT; CELL FUSION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CYTOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; SYNCYTIUM;

CELL FUSION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY; FORSKOLIN; GALECTINS; HUMANS; ISOQUINOLINES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SULFONAMIDES; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 78149330594     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-10-0221     Document Type: Article

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