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A morphometric study of maternal smoking on apoptosis in the syncytiotrophoblast
1 Apr 1998
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OBJECTIVES: To study syncytiotrophoblast apoptosis in the placenta of smoking and non-smoking pregnant women. METHODS: Twelve neonates, pregnancies and placentas were available for study. Eight mothers smoked during pregnancy and the remaining four were non-smokers used as control subjects. The main outcome measure was the apoptotic syncytiotrophoblast index for each group. Apoptosis was detected by...
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