Paracellular route is the major urate transport pathway across the blood-placental barrier

Physiological Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Uehara, Ichiro ^a   Kimura, Toru ^a   Tanigaki, Shinji ^a   Fukutomi, Toshiyuki ^a   Sakai, Keiji ^a   Shinohara, Yoshihiko ^b   Ichida, Kimiyoshi ^b   Iwashita, Mitsutoshi ^a   Sakurai, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Paracellular; Placenta; Syncytiotrophoblast; Urate transporter; Uric acid

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN; ESTRONE SULFATE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 9; HYPOXANTHINE; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER 10; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PLACENTAL BARRIER; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PARACELLULAR URATE TRANSPORT; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST CELL; TIGHT JUNCTION; TRANSEPITHELIAL RESISTANCE; TRANSPORT KINETICS; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; UMBILICAL VEIN; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 85002687746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14814/phy2.12013     Document Type: Article

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