Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 12 , Pages 1071-1077 , December 2009

Expression and Role of SNAT3 in the Placenta

,Accepted 23 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.09.009

Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 12 , Pages 1071-1077 , December 2009

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