Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 2 , Pages 170-174 , February 2008

Induction of Trophoblast Cell Fusion by a Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Inhibitor

,Accepted 31 October 2007.

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PII: S0143-4004(07)00261-5

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2007.10.012

Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 2 , Pages 170-174 , February 2008

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