Mst1 and Mst2 are essential regulators of trophoblast differentiation and placenta morphogenesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Du, Xingrong ^a   Dong, Yongli ^a   Shi, Hao ^a   Li, Jiang ^a   Kong, Shanshan ^a   Shi, Donghua ^a   Sun, Ling V ^a   Xu, Tian ^a,b   Deng, Kejing ^a   Tao, Wufan ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; ENDOLYMPH; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GIANT CELL; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MASH2 GENE; MOUSE; MST1 GENE; MST2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; REGULATOR GENE; TROPHOBLAST; VASCULARIZATION; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PLACENTA; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84897058487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090701     Document Type: Article

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