Placental Syncytium Forms a Biophysical Barrier against Pathogen Invasion

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1-10

  Zeldovich, Varvara B ^a,b   Clausen, Casper H ^c   Bradford, Emily ^a,b   Fletcher, Daniel A ^c   Maltepe, Emin ^a,b   Robbins, Jennifer R ^a,b,d   Bakardjiev, Anna I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CYTOCHALASIN D; INTERNALIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; HOST RESISTANCE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LISTERIOSIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PATHOGEN INVASION; PLACENTA; STEM CELL; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; SYNCYTIUM; TROPHOBLAST; ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; U937 CELL LINE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GIANT CELLS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TROPHOBLASTS; U937 CELLS;

EID: 84892842603     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003821     Document Type: Article

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