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Bass, Kathryn E. ;Li, Hongxia ;Hawkes, Susan P. ;Howard, Eric ;Bullen, Elizabeth
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Surprisingly, a successful human pregnancy requires cells from the fetal portion of the placenta (cytotrophoblasts) to adopt tumor-like properties. Cytotrophoblasts attach the conceptus to the endometrium by invading the uterus, and they initiate blood flow to the placenta by breaching maternal vess