Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 41-47 , January 2009

Long-chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Transport across Human Placental Choriocarcinoma (BeWo) Cells

  • K.A.R. Tobin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Research Institute for Internal Medicine, The Lipid Clinic, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, University of Oslo, Sognsvannsveien 20, N-0027 Oslo, Norway. Tel.: +47 23 07 36 19; fax: +47 23 07 36 30.
    • ,
  • G.M. Johnsen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ulleval University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
    • ,
  • A.C. Staff

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ulleval University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
    • ,
  • A.K. Duttaroy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

,Accepted 8 October 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.10.007

Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 41-47 , January 2009

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