Placenta
Volume 28, Issue 11 , Pages 1107-1109 , November 2007

Cytokeratin Antibodies as Differential Markers of Trophoblast and Fetomaternal Syncytial Plaques in the Sheep Placentome

  • M. Kadyrov

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy II, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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  • Y. Garnier

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
    • Present address: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Cologne, Germany.
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  • M. Gantert

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
    • Present address: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Cologne, Germany.
  • ,
  • B.W. Kramer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, AZM Maastricht, The Netherlands
  • ,
  • P. Kaufmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy II, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
  • ,
  • B. Huppertz

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cell Biology, Histology and Embryology, Center of Molecular Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Harrachgasse 21/7, 8010 Graz, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +43 316 380 7604; fax: +43 316 380 9625.

,Accepted 13 May 2007.

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PII: S0143-4004(07)00127-0

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2007.05.007

Placenta
Volume 28, Issue 11 , Pages 1107-1109 , November 2007