Placentation in the anteaters Myrmecophaga tridactyla and Tamandua tetradactyla (Eutheria, Xenarthra)

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mess, Andrea M ^a   Favaron, Phelipe O ^a   Pfarrer, Christiane ^b   Osmann, Christine ^c   Melo, Allan P F ^a   Rodrigues, Rosangela F ^a   Ambrósio, Carlos E ^a   Bevilacqua, Estela ^a   Miglino, Maria A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c Zoo Dortmund   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolution; Interhaemal barrier; Trophoblast; Vermilingua; Villous placenta

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTEATER; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHORION VILLUS; DECIDUA; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCHYME CELL; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; MYRMECOPHAGA TRIDACTYLA; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TAMANDUA TETRADACTYLA; TRABECULAR BONE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; PLACENTA; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; XENARTHRA;

DASYPODIDAE; EUTHERIA; MYRMECOPHAGA TRIDACTYLA; MYRMECOPHAGIDAE; TAMANDUA TETRADACTYLA; XENARTHRA;

EID: 84870152127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-10-102     Document Type: Article

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