Glucose-6-phosphatase is present in normal and pre-eclamptic placental trophoblasts: Ultrastructural enzyme-histochemical evidence

Placenta

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 81-85

  Matsubaraa, S ^a   Takizawa, T ^a   Sato, I ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERIUM; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATASE; LEAD;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME HISTOCHEMISTRY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACENTA; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0032939217     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/plac.1998.0346     Document Type: Article

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