Development of the hemochorial maternal vascular spaces in the placenta through endothelial and vasculogenic mimicry

Developmental Biology

Volumn 387, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 131-141

  Rai, Anshita ^a,b   Cross, James C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Placenta; Trophoblast; Vasculature

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL CELL; BLASTOCYST; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELL LINEAGE; COMPARATIVE MOLECULAR SIMILARITY INDICES ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIAL MIMICRY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRAVASCULAR SPACE; FETUS; FETUS CELL; HEMOCHORIAL MATERNAL VASCULAR SPACES; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; INNER EAR; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; THROMBOSIS; TROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST GIANT CELL; TUMOR CELL; VASCULARIZATION; VASCULOGENIC MIMICRY; ARTERY; BIRTH DEFECT; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; DECIDUA; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS DEATH; GIANT CELL; INNER CELL MASS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREECLAMPSIA; SPIRAL ATERY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

BLOOD FLOW; PLACENTA; TROPHOBLAST; VASCULATURE;

ANIMALS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; NEOPLASMS; PLACENTA; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE; VASCULOTROPIN;

EID: 84896896583     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.01.015     Document Type: Review

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