Epigenetic Activation of the Human Growth Hormone Gene Cluster during Placental Cytotrophoblast Differentiation
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K+ channel inhibition modulates the biochemical and morphological differentiation of human placental cytotrophoblast cells in vitro.
Maintaining placental syncytiotrophoblast, a specialized multinucleated transport epithelium, is essential for normal human pregnancy. Syncytiotrophoblast continuously renews through differentiation and fusion of cytotrophoblast cells, under paracrine control by syncytiotrophoblast production of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). We hypothesized that K(+) channels participate in trophoblast sy...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular and Cellular Biology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0270-7306,1098-5549
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00273-07