Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 11 , Pages 1003-1009 , November 2010

Roles of TauT and system A in cytoprotection of rat syncytiotrophoblast cell line exposed to hypertonic stress

  • T. Nishimura

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, 1-5-30 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8512, Japan
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  • Y. Sai

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, 1-5-30 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8512, Japan
    • Department of Pharmacy, Kanazawa University Hospital, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa 920-8641, Japan
    • ,
  • J. Fujii

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, 1-5-30 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8512, Japan
    • ,
  • M. Muta

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, 1-5-30 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8512, Japan
    • Faculty of Medical Health, Teikyo Heisei University, 2-51-4 Higashi Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170-8445, Japan
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  • H. Iizasa

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, 1-5-30 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8512, Japan
    • Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-15, Nishi-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0815, Japan
    • ,
  • M. Tomi

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, 1-5-30 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8512, Japan
    • ,
  • M. Deureh

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, 1-5-30 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8512, Japan
    • ,
  • N. Kose

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, 1-5-30 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8512, Japan
    • ,
  • E. Nakashima

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, 1-5-30 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8512, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 3 5400 2660; fax: +81 3 5400 2553.

,Accepted 9 August 2010.

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PII: S0143-4004(10)00298-5

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2010.08.003

Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 11 , Pages 1003-1009 , November 2010

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