Health during pregnancy and beyond: Fetal trophoblast cells as chief co-ordinators of intrauterine growth and reproductive success

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 325-337

  Hemberger, Myriam ^a,b  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FGF signalling; Giant cells; Placenta; Pre eclampsia; Reproductive pathologies; Spiral artery remodelling; Trophoblast; TS cells; Uterine natural killer cells

Indexed keywords

ARTERY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL EXPANSION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL INVASION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC AND PLACENTAL STRUCTURES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE FERTILITY; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS CELL; GIANT CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REVIEW; SPIRAL ARTERY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STEM CELL NICHE; TROPHOBLAST; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; STEM CELLS; TROPHOBLASTS; UTERUS;

EID: 84860197285     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: 13652060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07853890.2012.663930     Document Type: Review

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