Human pluripotent stem cells as a model of trophoblast differentiation in both normal development and disease

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 27, 2016, Pages E3882-E3891

  Horii, Mariko ^a,b   Li, Yingchun ^a,b   Wakeland, Anna K ^a,b   Pizzo, Donald P ^a   Nelson, Katharine K ^a,b   Sabatini, Karen ^b   Laurent, Louise Chang ^b   Liu, Ying ^c,d   Parast, Mana M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytotrophoblast; Extravillous trophoblast; Human pluripotent stem cells; Placenta; Syncytiotrophoblast

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HLA G ANTIGEN; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR; OXYGEN; PROTEIN P63; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; CDX2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CKAP4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INVASION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; EXTRAVILLOUS TROPHOBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA TISSUE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TRISOMY 21; TROPHOBLAST; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HYPOXIA; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION;

CDX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOXIA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PLACENTATION; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84977499749     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1604747113     Document Type: Article

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