Placenta
Volume 28, Issue 1 , Pages 22-30 , January 2007

Cytotoxic Effect of Zinc–Citrate Compound on Choriocarcinoma Cell Lines

,Accepted 5 January 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2006.01.003

Placenta
Volume 28, Issue 1 , Pages 22-30 , January 2007

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