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Placental expression of pituitary hormones is an ancestral feature of therian mammals

BACKGROUND: The placenta is essential for supplying nutrients and gases to the developing mammalian young before birth. While all mammals have a functional placenta, only in therian mammals (marsupials and eutherians) does the placenta closely appose or invade the uterine endometrium. The eutherian...

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Autores principales: Menzies, Brandon R, Pask, Andrew J, Renfree, Marilyn B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170617/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21854600
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2041-9139-2-16