Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 169-175 , February 2009

Effect of Increasing Maternal Body Mass Index on Oxidative and Nitrative Stress in The Human Placenta

,Accepted 24 November 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.11.019

Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 169-175 , February 2009

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