Adaptive mechanisms controlling uterine spiral artery remodeling during the establishment of pregnancy

International Journal of Developmental Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 2-4, 2014, Pages 247-259

  Soares, Michael J ^a   Chakraborty, Damayanti ^a   Kubota, Kaiyu ^a   Renaud, Stephen J ^a   Karim Rumi, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

FOSL1; Hemochorial placentation; Hypoxia; Natural killer cell; NOTCH; PI3K AKT; STOX1; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

ADRENOMEDULLIN; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FOSL1 PROTEIN; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 15; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; NOTCH RECEPTOR; OXYGEN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; STOX1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EOMES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TEAD4; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BMP4 GENE; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INVASION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL RENEWAL; COMT GENE; CTNNA3 GENE; DECIDUALIZATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SCREENING; HELLP SYNDROME; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; OXYGEN TENSION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOX1 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHOBLAST; UTERINE SPIRAL ARTERY REMODELING; UTERINE VASCULATURE; VASCULARIZATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS;

EID: 84904155945     PISSN: 02146282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1387/ijdb.140083ms     Document Type: Review

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