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Placental Development and Endogenous Retroviruses.
Uirusu - 1 Jan 2016
Imakawa Kazuhiko, Nakagawa So, Kusama Kazuya
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A placenta as we know now is a relatively new invention in mammals. Data accumulated indicates that a major cell type of the placenta is trophoblast, in which elevated expression of genes derived from various endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) as well as LTR retrotransposons is seen. However, evolutionally significance of ERV expression in placental development has not been well characterized or sorted out. In this...
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