Placental structure: In a comparative aspect

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 122-134

  Leiser, R ^a   Kaufmann, P ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

comparative morphology; interhemal barrier; placentation; vascularization

Indexed keywords

AMNION; BLOOD PLACENTA BARRIER; BOVIDS; CAT; CHORION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECIDUALIZATION; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HORSE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES; HUMAN; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0028030681     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1211275     Document Type: Article

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