Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 10 , Pages 871-878 , October 2008

In Vitro and In Vivo Evidence for Lack of Endovascular Remodeling by Third Trimester Trophoblasts

  • S. Kalkunte

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, 101 Dudley Street, Providence, RI 02905, USA
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  • Z. Lai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, 101 Dudley Street, Providence, RI 02905, USA
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  • N. Tewari

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, 101 Dudley Street, Providence, RI 02905, USA
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  • C. Chichester

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
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  • R. Romero

      Affiliations

    • Perinatology Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD, USA
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  • J. Padbury

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, 101 Dudley Street, Providence, RI 02905, USA
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  • S. Sharma

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, 101 Dudley Street, Providence, RI 02905, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +401 274 1122x8004.

,Accepted 24 July 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.07.009

Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 10 , Pages 871-878 , October 2008

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