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Functional Antagonism between High Temperature Requirement Protein A (HtrA) Family Members Regulates Trophoblast Invasion
8 Jul 2014
Abstract excerpt
Human trophoblast invasion of decidualized endometrium is essential for placentation and is tightly regulated and involves trophoblast-decidual cell interaction. High temperature requirement A4 (HtrA4) is a secreted serine protease highly expressed in the invasive extravillous trophoblasts that invade decidua. In contrast, both HtrA1 and HtrA3 have been shown to inhibit trophoblast invasion. Here we provide...
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