Syncytiotrophoblast derived extracellular vesicles transfer functional placental miRNAs to primary human endothelial cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Cronqvist, Tina ^a   Tannetta, Dionne ^b   Mörgelin, Matthias ^a   Belting, Mattias ^c   Sargent, Ian ^d   Familari, Mary ^e   Hansson, Stefan R ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

CELL CULTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXOSOME; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MEMBRANE MICROPARTICLE; METABOLISM; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; TROPHOBLAST; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL-DERIVED MICROPARTICLES; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 85021748952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04468-0     Document Type: Article

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