Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 9 , Pages 809-815 , September 2008

The Distribution of Angiopoietin-1, Angiopoietin-2 and Their Receptors Tie-1 and Tie-2 in the Very Early Human Placenta

  • Y. Seval

      Affiliations

    • Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, 07070 Antalya, Turkey
    • ,
  • L. Sati

      Affiliations

    • Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, 07070 Antalya, Turkey
    • ,
  • C. Celik-Ozenci

      Affiliations

    • Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, 07070 Antalya, Turkey
    • ,
  • O. Taskin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, 07070 Antalya, Turkey
    • ,
  • R. Demir

      Affiliations

    • Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, 07070 Antalya, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel./fax: +90 242 2274486.

,Accepted 20 June 2008.

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PII: S0143-4004(08)00200-2

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.06.009

Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 9 , Pages 809-815 , September 2008

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