Trophoblast fusion

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 713, Issue , 2011, Pages 81-95

  Huppertz, Berthold ^a   Gauster, Martin ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 8; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; ENVELOPE PROTEIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 15; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; SYNCYTIN 1; SYNCYTIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GCM1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; CASPASE;

ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELL TRANSPORT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; HUMAN; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CASPASES; FEMALE; GIANT CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE FUSION; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 79960942870     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0763-4_6     Document Type: Article

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