Inhibition of akt activity and calcium channel function coordinately drive cell-cell fusion in the BeWo choriocarcinoma placental cell line

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Vatish, Manu ^a   Tesfa, Lydia ^b   Grammatopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Yamada, Eijiro ^b   Bastie, Claire C ^a,b   Pessin, Jeffrey E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; CYCLIC AMP; FORSKOLIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; CALCIUM; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5 BISPHOSPHATE 3 KINASE;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL FUSION; CELL STRAIN BEWO; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; LENTIVIRINAE; METABOLISM; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CELL FUSION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; CLASS I PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; CYCLIC AMP; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FORSKOLIN; HUMANS; LENTIVIRUS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT;

EID: 84856001693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029353     Document Type: Article

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