Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 5 , Pages 396-404 , May 2008

Expression and Localization of StarD7 in Trophoblast Cells

  • S. Angeletti

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, CIBICI-CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Haya de la Torre y Medina Allende, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
    • ,
  • V. Rena

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, CIBICI-CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Haya de la Torre y Medina Allende, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
    • ,
  • R. Nores

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, CIBICI-CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Haya de la Torre y Medina Allende, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
    • ,
  • R. Fretes

      Affiliations

    • Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
    • ,
  • G.M. Panzetta-Dutari

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, CIBICI-CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Haya de la Torre y Medina Allende, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
    • ,
  • S. Genti-Raimondi

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, CIBICI-CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Haya de la Torre y Medina Allende, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +54 351 434 4973; fax: +54 351 433 3048.

,Accepted 21 February 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.02.011

Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 5 , Pages 396-404 , May 2008

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