Placenta
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 107-117 , February 2007

Expression in Human Trophoblast and Choriocarcinoma Cell Lines, BeWo, Jeg-3 and JAr of Genes Involved in the Hepatobiliary-like Excretory Function of the Placenta

  • M.A. Serrano

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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  • R.I.R. Macias

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Salamanca, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, E.D. S-09, 37007-Salamanca, Spain
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  • O. Briz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Salamanca, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, E.D. S-09, 37007-Salamanca, Spain
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  • M.J. Monte

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Salamanca, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, E.D. S-09, 37007-Salamanca, Spain
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  • A.G. Blazquez

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Salamanca, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, E.D. S-09, 37007-Salamanca, Spain
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  • C. Williamson

      Affiliations

    • Imperial College School of Science, Technology and Medicine, Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Hammersmith Campus, London, UK
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  • R. Kubitz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectiology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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  • J.J.G. Marin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Salamanca, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, E.D. S-09, 37007-Salamanca, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +34 923 294674; fax: +34 923 294669.

,Accepted 15 March 2006.

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☆ Financial support: This study was supported in part by the “Junta de Castilla y León (Grant SA013/04)”, Spain and the “Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica (Grant BFI2003-03208)”, Spain. Some of the authors are members of the Network for Cooperative Research on Hepatitis, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, FIS (Grant G03/015), Spain.

PII: S0143-4004(06)00088-9

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2006.03.009

Placenta
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 107-117 , February 2007

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