Placenta
Volume 28 , Pages S41-S47 , April 2007

Animal Models of Human Placentation – A Review

  • A.M. Carter

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,Accepted 14 November 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2006.11.002

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Volume 28 , Pages S41-S47 , April 2007

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