| Literature DB >> 25430479 |
Francesca Soncin1, David Natale, Mana M Parast.
Abstract
The mouse is often used as a model for understanding human placentation and offers multiple advantages, including the ability to manipulate gene expression in specific compartments and to derive trophoblast stem cells, which can be maintained or differentiated in vitro. Nevertheless, there are numerous differences between the mouse and human placentas, only the least of which are structural. This review aims to compare mouse and human placentation, with a focus on signaling pathways involved in trophoblast lineage-specific differentiation.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25430479 PMCID: PMC4366325 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-014-1794-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Mol Life Sci ISSN: 1420-682X Impact factor: 9.261