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Current perspectives on placental development and its integration with fetal growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

J. M Bassett
J. M Bassett
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University of Oxford, Growth and Developmetn Unit, University Field Laboratory, Whtham, Oxford OX2 8QJ
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Symposium on ‘Recent research on the placenta’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , August 1991 , pp. 311 - 319
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The Nutrition Society

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