Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 10 , Pages 840-847 , October 2008

Aquaporins and Fetal Fluid Balance

  • H. Liu
    • ,
  • Z. Zheng
    • ,
  • E.M. Wintour

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia. Tel.: +61 3 99052508; fax: +61 3 99052547.

,Accepted 24 July 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.07.010

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