Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 7 , Pages 565-570 , July 2009

Quantifying Immunogold Localization Patterns on Electron Microscopic Thin Sections of Placenta: Recent Developments

  • T.M. Mayhew

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Integrated Systems Biology and Medicine, School of Biomedical Sciences, E Floor, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationTel.: +44 115 823 0132; fax: +44 115 823 0142.

,Accepted 30 April 2009.

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PII: S0143-4004(09)00145-3

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.04.013

Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 7 , Pages 565-570 , July 2009

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