Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 53-59 , January 2010

Isolation of Plasma Membrane Vesicles from Mouse Placenta at Term and Measurement of System A and System β Amino Acid Transporter Activity

,Accepted 9 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.11.006

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Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 53-59 , January 2010

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