Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 5 , Pages 385-390 , May 2008

Emerging Functions of Placental Cathepsins

  • R.W. Mason

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,Accepted 11 February 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.02.006

Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 5 , Pages 385-390 , May 2008

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