Ultrastructural study on human placentae from women subjected to assisted reproductive technology treatments

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 635-642

  Zhang, Yuan ^a   Zhao, Wene ^b   Jiang, Yaqin ^d   Zhang, Ruyang ^c   Wang, Jing ^a   Li, Chanjuan ^a   Zhao, Haijun ^a   Gao, Li ^a   Cui, Yugui ^a   Zhou, Zuomin ^a   Sha, Jiahao ^a   Liu, Jiayin ^a   Wang, Ling ^b  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b School of Basic Medical Sciences   (China)

^c NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Maternal and Child Health Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Placenta; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BLOOD PLACENTA BARRIER; CELL VACUOLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MICROSCOPY; MICROVILLUS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052552502     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.090589     Document Type: Article

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