Effects of reduced Gcm1 expression on trophoblast morphology, fetoplacental vascularity, and pregnancy outcomes in mice

Hypertension

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 732-739

  Bainbridge, Shannon A ^a,b,c   Minhas, Abhijeet ^b,c   Whiteley, Kathie J ^b   Qu, Dawei ^b   Sled, John G ^c,d   Kingdom, John C P ^b,c   Adamson, S Lee ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

angiogenesis; placenta; placental growth factor; preeclampsia; sFlt1; syncytin; VEGFA

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN GCM1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL VASCULARITY; FETUS GROWTH; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; NEUROPEPTIDES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84857614491     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.111.183939     Document Type: Article

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