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Animal models of pre-eclampsia: do they exist?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2008

Krik P Conard
Krik P Conard*
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Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, USA
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Kirk P Conrad, Department of Physiology, The University of New Mexico, School of Medicine, Basic Medical Sciences Building, Albaquerque, NM 87131, USA.
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Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 67 - 88
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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