Activin Is a Local Regulator of Human Cytotrophoblast Cell Differentiation¹

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Inadequate maternal vascular response to placentation in pregnancies complicated by pre‐eclampsia and by small‐for‐gestational age infants

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Implantation and the placenta: key pieces of the development puzzle

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The role of the spiral arteries in the pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia.

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92-kD type IV collagenase mediates invasion of human cytotrophoblasts.

1991 • 722 citations

Distribution patterns of extracellular matrix components and adhesion receptors are intricately modulated during first trimester cytotrophoblast differentiation along the invasive pathway, in vivo.

1992 • 669 citations

Pre-eclampsia and the placenta

1991 • 592 citations

Integrin switching regulates normal trophoblast invasion

1994 • 580 citations

Hypoxia alters early gestation human cytotrophoblast differentiation/invasion in vitro and models the placental defects that occur in preeclampsia.

1996 • 560 citations

Human placental HLA-G expression is restricted to differentiated cytotrophoblasts.

1995 • 479 citations

Adhesive and degradative properties of human placental cytotrophoblast cells in vitro.

1989 • 477 citations

Mechanism of control of trophoblast invasion in situ

1991 • 374 citations

Interleukin-1 beta regulates human cytotrophoblast metalloproteinase activity and invasion in vitro.

1994 • 306 citations

Localization, Secretion, and Action of Inhibin in Human Placenta

1987 • 258 citations

In VitroSystems for the Study of Human Placental Endocrine Function*

1990 • 255 citations

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor Localization and Activation in Human Trophoblast and Choriocarcinoma Cells1

1994 • 246 citations

Human cytotrophoblast invasion is up-regulated by epidermal growth factor: Evidence that paracrine factors modify this process

1994 • 237 citations

An ultrastructural and ultrahistochemical study of the human placenta in maternal pre-eclampsia

1980 • 234 citations

Follistatin and Activin: A Potential Intrinsic Regulatory System within Diverse Tissues

1991 • 232 citations

Class 1 major histocompatibility complex antigens on human extra-villous trophoblast.

1984 • 224 citations

Pre-eclampsia is associated with an excess of proliferative immature intermediate trophoblast

1995 • 211 citations

Human cytotrophoblast invasion

1993 • 203 citations

Developmental regulation of the expression of 72 and 92 kd type IV collagenases in human trophoblasts: A possible mechanism for control of trophoblast invasion

1994 • 195 citations

Identification of distinct epitopes of endoglin, an RGD-containing glycoprotein of endothelial cells, leukemic cells, and syncytiotrophoblasts

1992 • 186 citations

Inhibin and activin modulate the release of gonadotropin-releasing hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin, and progesterone from cultured human placental cells.

1989 • 182 citations

Plasminogen activator inhibitor types 1 and 2 in human trophoblasts. PAI-1 is an immunocytochemical marker of invading trophoblasts.

1989 • 173 citations

Localization of transforming growth factor β and its natural inhibitor decorin in the human placenta and decidua throughout gestation

1995 • 137 citations

Transforming Growth Factor β1 Inhibits Placental Differentiation and Human Chorionic Gonadotropin and Human Placental Lactogen Secretion

1991 • 134 citations

Regulation of urokinase-type plasminogen activator production by cultured human cytotrophoblasts.

1987 • 126 citations

Expression of gelatinases A and B and their tissue inhibitors by cells of early and term human placenta and gestational endometrium.

1994 • 114 citations

Inhibin subunits in human placenta: Localization and messenger ribonucleic acid levels during pregnancy

1991 • 109 citations

Functional, long-term cultures of human term trophoblasts purified by column-elimination of CD9 expressing cells

1994 • 102 citations

Inhibin and activin in human fetal membranes: evidence for a local effect on prostaglandin release.

1993 • 91 citations

Gestational age-dependent dual action of epidermal growth factor on human placenta early in gestation.

1992 • 89 citations

Expression of class I HLA genes by trophoblast cells. Analysis by in situ hybridization.

1988 • 86 citations

Local production and action of follistatin in human placenta.

1994 • 74 citations

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone, inhibin, and activin in human placenta: evidence for a common cellular localization.

1992 • 73 citations

Integrins and adhesion molecules: Gelatinase and oncofetal fibronectin secretion is dependent on integrin expression on human cytotrophoblasts*

1995 • 73 citations

Integrin α subunit mRNAs are differentially expressed in early Xenopus embryos

1993 • 68 citations

Hepatocyte Growth Factor Promotes the Growth of Cytotrophoblasts by the Paracrine Mechanism

1995 • 66 citations

Localization and regulation of the activin-A dimer in human placental cells.

1992 • 59 citations

Activin-A stimulates, while transforming growth factor β1 inhibits,chorionic gonadotrophin production and aromatase activity in cultured human placental trophoblasts

1996 • 57 citations

Analysis of gastrulation: different types of gastrulation movement are induced by different mesoderm-inducing factors in Xenopus laevis

1993 • 52 citations

Acute stimulation of human chorionic gonadotropin secretion by recombinant human activin-A in first trimester human trophoblast.

1993 • 44 citations

Transforming growth factor-β1 and -β2 induce inhibin and activin βB-subunit messenger ribonucleic acid levels in cultured human granulosa-luteal cells

1996 • 44 citations

Expression of the type II activin receptor gene in the human placenta.

1993 • 43 citations

Color Atlas of Clinical Embryology

1994 • 42 citations

Trophoblast function in normal and preeclamptic pregnancy

1996 • 36 citations

Human trophoblast cultures: Models for implantation and peri-implantation toxicology

1993 • 29 citations

Role of Locally Produced Growth Factors in Human Placental Growth and Invasion with Special Reference to Transforming Growth Factors

1994 • 16 citations

Regulation of human extravillus trophoblast (EVT) cell differentiation and proliferation in vitro-role of epidermal growth factor (EGF)

1994 • 12 citations

Regulation of trophoblast differentiation by TGFβ1 and TGF-β3, via endoglin

1996 • 5 citations