Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 176-186 , February 2009

Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptors and Retinoid X Receptor-alpha in Term Human Gestational Tissues: Tissue Specific and Labour-associated Changes

  • S.J. Holdsworth-Carson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3084, Australia
    • Mercy Perinatal Research Centre, Mercy Hospital for Women, Heidelberg, Victoria 3084, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Mercy Hospital for Women, Level 4/163 Studley Road, Heidelberg, Victoria 3084, Australia. Tel.: +61 3 8458 4347; fax: +61 3 8458 4380.
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  • M. Permezel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3084, Australia
    • Mercy Perinatal Research Centre, Mercy Hospital for Women, Heidelberg, Victoria 3084, Australia
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  • C. Riley

      Affiliations

    • Translational Proteomics, Baker IDI, Victoria 3004, Australia
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  • G.E. Rice

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3084, Australia
    • Mercy Perinatal Research Centre, Mercy Hospital for Women, Heidelberg, Victoria 3084, Australia
    • Translational Proteomics, Baker IDI, Victoria 3004, Australia
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  • M. Lappas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3084, Australia
    • Mercy Perinatal Research Centre, Mercy Hospital for Women, Heidelberg, Victoria 3084, Australia

,Accepted 14 November 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.11.013

Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 176-186 , February 2009