Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 6 , Pages 492-502 , June 2008

Morphological and Electrical Properties of Human Trophoblast Choriocarcinoma, BeWo Cells

  • A.J. Ramos

      Affiliations

    • Nephrology Division and Electrophysiology Core, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
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  • M.R. Cantero

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Investigaciones Cardiológicas (ININCA) UBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • ,
  • P. Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Nephrology Division and Electrophysiology Core, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
    • ,
  • M.K. Raychowdhury

      Affiliations

    • Nephrology Division and Electrophysiology Core, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
    • ,
  • A. Green

      Affiliations

    • Department of Reproductive/Developmental Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada
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  • D. MacPhee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Reproductive/Developmental Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada
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  • H.F. Cantiello

      Affiliations

    • Nephrology Division and Electrophysiology Core, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
    • Instituto de Investigaciones Cardiológicas (ININCA) UBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Nephrology Division and Electrophysiology Core, MGH East, Building 149, 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA. Tel.: +1 617 726 5640; fax: +1 617 726 5669.

,Accepted 27 February 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.02.013

Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 6 , Pages 492-502 , June 2008

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