Melatonin: The watchdog of villous trophoblast homeostasis against hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced oxidative stress and apoptosis

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 381, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 35-45

  Lanoix, Dave ^a   Lacasse, Andrée Anne ^a   Reiter, Russel J ^b   Vaillancourt, Cathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Mitochondrial apoptosis; Reactive oxygen species; Villous trophoblast

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; MELATONIN; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOXIA; MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REOXYGENATION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST;

ANTIOXIDANT; CAT; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GPX; H/R; HIF-1; HPRT1; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE 1; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; HYPOXIA/REOXYGENATION; MITOCHONDRIAL APOPTOSIS; NF-ΚB; NUCLEAR FACTOR-ΚB; PARP; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE A; POLY(ADP-RIBOSE) POLYMERASE; PPIA; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REAL-TIME PCR, QPCR; REVERSE-TRANSCRIPTION; RHO-ASSOCIATED COILED-COIL PROTEIN KINASE 1; ROCK-1; ROS; RT; SFLT-1; SOD1 OR CU, ZN-SOD; SOD2, MN-SOD; SOLUBLE FMS-LIKE TYROSINE KINASE 1; STBM; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE 1; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE 2; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST MICROPARTICLES; TNF-Α; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR Α; VILLOUS TROPHOBLAST; XANTHINE DEHYDROGENASE; XANTHINE OXIDASE; XDH; XO;

APOPTOSIS; CELL HYPOXIA; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC VILLI; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HUMANS; MELATONIN; MITOCHONDRIA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; TROPHOBLASTS; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

EID: 84882789341     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2013.07.010     Document Type: Article

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