Placenta and fetal membranes of the four-toed elephant shrew, Petrodromus tetradactylus

Placenta

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 803-809

  Oduor Okelo, D ^a   Katema, R M ^a   Carter, A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; EMBRYO; ENDOLYMPH; FETUS MEMBRANE; INSECTIVORE; MYOMETRIUM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TROPHOBLAST; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS HORN; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EMBRYO; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GESTATIONAL AGE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SHREWS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4644238131     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2004.03.001     Document Type: Article

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