Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 10 , Pages 883-891 , October 2008

Barium, Tea and Sodium Sensitive Potassium Channels are Present in the Human Placental Syncytiotrophoblast Apical Membrane

  • P. Díaz
    • ,
  • C. Vallejos
    • ,
  • I. Guerrero
    • ,
  • G. Riquelme

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Programa de Fisiología y Biofísica, ICBM, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 70005, Santiago 7, Chile. Tel.: +56 2 978 6206; fax: +56 2 777 6916.

,Accepted 3 July 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.07.002

Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 10 , Pages 883-891 , October 2008

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