The Roach muscle bundle and umbilical cord coiling

Early Human Development

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 571-574

  de Laat, Monique W M ^a   Nikkels, Peter G J ^a   Franx, Arie ^b   Visser, Gerard H A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coiling muscle; Roach muscle bundle; Umbilical coiling; Umbilical cord

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS MOVEMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; MUSCLE CELL; PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL CORD;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 34548485603     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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