Single-cell RNA-seq reveals cell type-specific transcriptional signatures at the maternal-foetal interface during pregnancy

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Nelson, Andrew C ^a   Mould, Arne W ^a   Bikoff, Elizabeth K ^a   Robertson, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; RNA;

EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH; MORPHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GIANT CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TROPHOBLAST; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GIANT CELLS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; PLACENTA; POSITIVE REGULATORY DOMAIN I-BINDING FACTOR 1; PREGNANCY; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84971222346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11414     Document Type: Article

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