The placental bed

Hypertension in Pregnancy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-23

  Pijnenborg, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Placental bed; Preeclampsia; Trophoblast invasion; Uteroplacental vasculature

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE;

EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REVIEW; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 0029899063     PISSN: 10641955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10641959609015685     Document Type: Review

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