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Role of retrotransposon-derived imprinted gene, Rtl1, in the feto-maternal interface of mouse placenta.
Nature genetics - 1 Feb 2008
Sekita Yoichi, Wagatsuma Hirotaka, Nakamura Kenji, Ono Ryuichi, Kagami Masayo, Wakisaka Noriko, Hino Toshiaki, Suzuki-Migishima Rika, Kohda Takashi, Ogura Atsuo, Ogata Tsutomu, Yokoyama Minesuke, Kaneko-Ishino Tomoko, Ishino Fumitoshi
Abstract excerpt
Eutherian placenta, an organ that emerged in the course of mammalian evolution, provides essential architecture, the so-called feto-maternal interface, for fetal development by exchanging nutrition, gas and waste between fetal and maternal blood. Functional defects of the placenta cause several d...
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