TERC telomerase subunit gene copy number in placentas from pregnancies complicated with intrauterine growth restriction

Early Human Development

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 73-75

  Biron Shental, Tal ^a,b   Kidron, Dvora ^a,b   Sukenik Halevy, Rivka ^a   Goldberg Bittman, Lilach ^a,c   Sharony, Reuven ^a,b   Fejgin, Moshe D ^a,b   Amiel, Aliza ^a,c  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

FISH; IUGR; Placenta; TERC; Trophoblasts

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE RNA COMPONENT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CELL AGING; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTA INSUFFICIENCY; PLACENTAL BIOPSY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RNA GENE; SENESCENCE; TELOMERASE RNA COMPONENT GENE; TELOMERE; TROPHOBLAST;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GENE DOSAGE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA; TELOMERASE; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 78751607930     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2010.08.024     Document Type: Article

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