Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 305-311 , April 2010

Gestational age and dose influence on placental transfer of 63Ni in rats

  • X.-W. Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroscience, Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, 199 Donggang Xi Road, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, PR China
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  • J.-Y. Gu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroscience, Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, 199 Donggang Xi Road, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, PR China
    • ,
  • Z. Li

      Affiliations

    • Radiochemistry Laboratory, Lanzhou University, 222 Tianshui Nan Road, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, PR China
    • ,
  • Y.-F. Song

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroscience, Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, 199 Donggang Xi Road, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, PR China
    • ,
  • W.-S. Wu

      Affiliations

    • Radiochemistry Laboratory, Lanzhou University, 222 Tianshui Nan Road, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, PR China
    • ,
  • Y.-P. Hou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroscience, Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, 199 Donggang Xi Road, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, PR China
    • Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Province, Lanzhou University, 199 Donggang Xi Road, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, PR China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Neuroscience, Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, 199 Donggang Xi Road, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, PR China. Tel.: +86 931 8915886.

,Accepted 26 January 2010.

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PII: S0143-4004(10)00041-X

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2010.01.015

Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 305-311 , April 2010

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