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Sex differences in rat placental development: from pre-implantation to late gestation
16 May 2017
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: and birth complications. This may be due in part to altered morphology or function of the XY placenta. We hypothesised that sexual dimorphism begins at the blastocyst stage with sex differences in the progenitor trophectoderm (TE) and its derived trophoblast lineages, as these cells populate the majority of cell types within the placenta. We investigated sex-specific differences in cell allocation in...
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