Placenta
Volume 28, Issue 11 , Pages 1234-1238 , November 2007

Caviomorph Placentation as a Model for Trophoblast Invasion

  • A. Mess

      Affiliations

    • Department of Research, Museum of Natural History, Humboldt-University Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 30 20938946; fax: +49 30 20938565.
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  • N. Zaki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy II, RWTH Aachen, Germany
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  • M. Kadyrov

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy II, RWTH Aachen, Germany
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  • H. Korr

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, RWTH Aachen, Germany
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  • P. Kaufmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy II, RWTH Aachen, Germany

,Accepted 11 August 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2007.08.003

Placenta
Volume 28, Issue 11 , Pages 1234-1238 , November 2007

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