Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 312-319 , April 2010

Expression and Transcriptional Regulation of Individual Pregnancy-specific Glycoprotein Genes in Differentiating Trophoblast Cells

,Accepted 5 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2010.01.004

Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 312-319 , April 2010

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