Transcriptional regulators of the trophoblast lineage in mammals with hemochorial placentation

Reproduction

Volumn 148, Issue 6, 2014, Pages R121-R136

  Knott, Jason G ^b   Paul, Soumen ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; HEMOCHORIAL PLACENTATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHECTODERM; TROPHOBLAST; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

MAMMALIA;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84913539676     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-14-0072     Document Type: Review

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