Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 11 , Pages 942-949 , November 2008

The Effect of Labour and Placental Separation on the Shedding of Syncytiotrophoblast Microparticles, Cell-free DNA and mRNA in Normal Pregnancy and Pre-eclampsia

  • A. Reddy

      Affiliations

    • Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Level 3, Women's Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
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  • X.Y. Zhong

      Affiliations

    • University Women's Hospital/Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 21, CH 4031 Basel, Switzerland
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  • C. Rusterholz

      Affiliations

    • University Women's Hospital/Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 21, CH 4031 Basel, Switzerland
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  • S. Hahn

      Affiliations

    • University Women's Hospital/Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 21, CH 4031 Basel, Switzerland
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  • W. Holzgreve

      Affiliations

    • University Women's Hospital/Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 21, CH 4031 Basel, Switzerland
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  • C.W.G. Redman

      Affiliations

    • Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Level 3, Women's Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
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  • I.L. Sargent

      Affiliations

    • Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Level 3, Women's Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 1865 221019; fax: +44 1865 769141.

,Accepted 15 August 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.08.018

Placenta
Volume 29, Issue 11 , Pages 942-949 , November 2008

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