Implication of human endogenous retrovirus envelope proteins in placental functions

Viruses

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4609-4627

  Lokossou, Adjimon Gatien ^a   Toudic, Caroline ^a   Barbeau, Benoit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exosomes; Human endogenous retrovirus; Immunotolerance; Placenta; Pre eclampsia; Syncytin 1 and 2; Syncytiotrophoblast

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANNEXIN; CD63 ANTIGEN; CD81 ANTIGEN; CD9 ANTIGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLAUDIN 1; HISTONE H3; HUMAN PLACENTA LACTOGEN; INTEGRIN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; MICRORNA; PROTEINASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SYNCYTIN 1; SYNCYTIN 2; TUMOR SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE 101 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; PLACENTA PROTEIN; SYNCYTIN; SYNCYTIN 2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; EXOSOME; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPISM; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS REPLICATION; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLAST;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS;

ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EXOSOMES; FEMALE; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; PLACENTA; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; TROPHOBLASTS; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 84912527985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v6114609     Document Type: Review

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