Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 10 , Pages 860-866 , October 2010

Contribution of Potassium in Human Placental Steroidogenesis

,Accepted 17 July 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2010.07.008

Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 10 , Pages 860-866 , October 2010

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