Placenta
Volume 28, Issue 5 , Pages 421-428 , May 2007

Placental and Membrane Aquaporin Water Channels: Correlation with Amniotic Fluid Volume and Composition

  • M.H. Beall

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, CA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 W. Carson St. Box 3, Torrance, CA 90509, USA. Tel.: +1 310 222 3565; fax: +1 310 782 8148.
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  • S. Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, CA, USA
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  • B. Yang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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  • N. Chaudhri

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, CA, USA
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  • F. Amidi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, CA, USA
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  • M.G. Ross

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, CA, USA

,Accepted 2 June 2006.

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PII: S0143-4004(06)00159-7

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2006.06.005

Placenta
Volume 28, Issue 5 , Pages 421-428 , May 2007

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