Syncytin proteins incorporated in placenta exosomes are important for cell uptake and show variation in abundance in serum exosomes from patients with preeclampsia

FASEB Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3703-3719

  Vargas, Amandine ^a   Zhou, Shufeng ^a   Et́hier Chiasson, Maude ^a   Flipo, Denis ^a   Lafond, Julie ^a   Gilbert, Caroline ^b   Barbeau, Benoit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fusogenic protein; HERV; Microvesicles biomarker; Villous cytotrophoblasts

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SYNCYTIN 1 PROTEIN; SYNCYTIN 2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURFACE; CELL TRANSPORT; CHORIOCARCINOMA CELL LINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXOSOME; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TROPHOBLAST; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BIOMARKER; FUSOGENIC PROTEIN; HERV; MICROVESICLES; VILLOUS CYTOTROPHOBLASTS;

ADULT; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM ASC; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUSION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHORIOCARCINOMA; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; ENDOSOMES; EXOSOMES; FEMALE; FURIN; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TROPHOBLASTS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84905251644     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.13-239053     Document Type: Article

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