The isolation and characterization of a population of extravillous trophoblast progenitors from first trimester human placenta

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BACKGROUND: It is widely accepted that most if not all villous cytotrophoblasts from term placentae are committed to differentiate into syncytiotrophoblast, but that early in gestation villous cytotrophoblasts are bipotential and capable of differentiating into either extravillous trophoblasts (EVTs) or syncytiotrophoblast. In contrast, our previous work has suggested that two separate populations of...

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