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Placenta

Known as: Placentomes, Placentome, Placentoma, Normal 
A highly vascularized mammalian fetal-maternal organ and major site of transport of oxygen, nutrients, and fetal waste products. It includes a fetal… 
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Structure of placental membrane

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Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Biochemical events during initiation of rat hepatocarcinogenesis.
Carcinogenesis is a multistep, multistage process that begins with irreversible, but heritable damage to a single cell. The… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Estrogen-induced ribonuclease activity in Xenopus liver.
Estrogen administration to male Xenopus causes the cytoplasmic destabilization of the hepatic serum protein coding mRNAs, most… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Covalently bound pyrroloquinoline quinone is the organic prosthetic group in human placental lysyl oxidase.
Treatment of purified human placental lysyl oxidase with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH) resulted in a large spectral change… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Cation transport in lung epithelial cells derived from fetal, newborn, and adult rabbits.
Recent studies done with fetal and adult sheep and with monolayers of cultured rat alveolar type II cells suggest that active… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Fetal-placental-maternal uptake of aluminum in mice following gestational exposure: effect of dose and route of administration.
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Foetal and placental growth in the mouse after pre-implantation development in vitro under oxygen concentrations of 5 and 20%.
Blastocysts which developed from two-cell mouse embryos in culture tubes containing an atmosphere with 20% oxygen had… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Aromatization of delta4-androstene-3,17-dione, 19-hydroxy-delta4-androstene-3,17-dione, and 19-oxo-delta4-androstene-3,17-dione at a common catalytic site in human placental microsomes.
Estrogen is believed to be biosynthesized from androstenedione in placental microsomes by a multienzyme pathway in which 19… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Purification of human placental alkaline phosphatase. Salt effects in affinity chromatography.
Human placental alkaline phosphatase was chromatographed on Sepharose derivatives of d- and l-phenylalanine, l-leucine, glycine… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Plasma progesterone levels in pregnant and pseudopregnant ferrets.
In the ferret, the life-span and growth of the CL is dependent on pituitary hormones. Hypophysectomy arrests the development of… 
Highly Cited
1957
Highly Cited
1957
Placental transfer of calcium and strontium in the rat and rabbit.
The comparative metabolism of calcium and strontium during fetal development was investigated in rats and rabbits using double…