Placental syncytiotrophoblast maintains a specific type of glycocalyx at the fetomaternal border: The glycocalyx at the fetomaternal interface in healthy women and patients with HELLP syndrome

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1237-1245

  Hofmann Kiefer, Klaus F ^a   Chappell, D ^a   Knabl, J ^a   Frank, H G ^a   Martinoff, N ^a   Conzen, P ^a   Becker, B F ^b   Rehm, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

glycocalyx; glycosaminoglycans; HELLP syndrome; placenta; syncytiotrophoblast

Indexed keywords

HEPARAN SULFATE; HYALURONIC ACID; SYNDECAN 1;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PLACENTA BARRIER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTYLEDON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GLYCOCALYX; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

GLYCOCALYX; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; HELLP SYNDROME; PLACENTA; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

ADULT; FEMALE; GLYCOCALYX; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84883689495     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719113483011     Document Type: Article

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