Early Human Development
Volume 83, Issue 1 , Pages 41-46 , January 2007

Insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor expression in the placentae of diabetic and normal pregnancies

  • Abdul Rahman Hayati

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Jalan Yaacob Latif, Bandar Tun Razak, 56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    • Abdul Rahman Hayati and Fook Choe Cheah contributed equally to the design of the protocol of this study and the writing of this manuscript.
    • ,
  • Fook Choe Cheah

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    • Abdul Rahman Hayati and Fook Choe Cheah contributed equally to the design of the protocol of this study and the writing of this manuscript.
    • ,
  • Ay Eeng Tan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    • ,
  • Geok Chin Tan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Jalan Yaacob Latif, Bandar Tun Razak, 56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Fax: +60 3 91737340.

,Accepted 6 April 2006.

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☆ The results of this study were presented at the 46th annual meeting of the European Society for Pediatric Research (ESPR) held in Siena, Italy on 31 August–3 September 2005, and was published as an abstract in Pediatric Research, August 2005, volume 58(2), page 365.

PII: S0378-3782(06)00114-9

doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2006.04.002

Early Human Development
Volume 83, Issue 1 , Pages 41-46 , January 2007

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