A Light and Electron Microscopical Study of the Tragulid (Mouse Deer) Placenta

Placenta

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1039-1048

  Wooding, F B P ^a   Kimura, J ^b   Fukuta, K ^c   Forhead, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immunocytochemistry; Mouse deer; Placenta; Tragulus; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN ANTIBODY; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PROLACTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL FUSION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOMETRIUM; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS; GOAT; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; MOUSE DEER; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA LOCALIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SHEEP; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TIGHT JUNCTION; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; DEER; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 34548425177     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2007.04.010     Document Type: Article

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