Smooth muscle morphology in the nipple-areola complex

Journal of Morphological Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 171-175

  Tezer, M ^a   Bakkaloglu H ^a   Erguven M ^b   Bilir, A ^a   Kadioglu A ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL YENI YUZYIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; Female sexual response; Morphology; Nipple

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053640698     PISSN: 21770298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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