Caspase-mediated apoptosis of trophoblasts in term human placental villi is restricted to cytotrophoblasts and absent from the multinucleated syncytiotrophoblast

Reproduction

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-121

  Longtine, Mark S ^a   Chen, Baosheng ^a   Odibo, Anthony O ^a   Zhong, Yan ^a,b   Nelson, D Michael ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; DNA; UVOMORULIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; PLACENTA VILLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; SYNCYTIUM;

APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CADHERINS; CASPASE 8; CHORIONIC VILLI; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GIANT CELLS; HUMANS; KERATIN-18; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLY(ADP-RIBOSE) POLYMERASES; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84862908101     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-11-0340     Document Type: Article

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