Remodelling at the maternal-fetal interface: Relevance to human pregnancy disorders

Reproduction

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 803-813

  Cartwright, Judith E ^a   Fraser, Rupsha ^a   Leslie, Karin ^a   Wallace, Alison E ^a   James, Joanna L ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INVASION; ENDOMETRIUM RECEPTIVITY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NIDATION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT MISCARRIAGE; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPIRAL ARTERY REMODELLING; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TROPHOBLAST; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UTERUS FUNCTION;

CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 78650184241     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-10-0294     Document Type: Review

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