Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 186-191 , March 2010

Effect of Maternal Tobacco Smoke Exposure on the Placental Transcriptome

  • H. Bruchova

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Hana Bruchova, Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, U Nemocnice 1, 128 20 Prague, Czech Republic. Tel.: +420 221977306; fax: +420 221977371.
    • Both authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • A. Vasikova

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Both authors contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • M. Merkerova

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic
    • ,
  • A. Milcova

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Experimental Medicine, AS CR, v.v.i., Prague, Czech Republic
    • ,
  • J. Topinka

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Experimental Medicine, AS CR, v.v.i., Prague, Czech Republic
    • ,
  • I. Balascak

      Affiliations

    • 2nd Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
    • ,
  • A. Pastorkova

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Experimental Medicine, AS CR, v.v.i., Prague, Czech Republic
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  • R.J. Sram

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Experimental Medicine, AS CR, v.v.i., Prague, Czech Republic
    • ,
  • R. Brdicka

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic

,Accepted 16 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.12.016

Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 186-191 , March 2010

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