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IN 1949 I published a hypothesis suggesting that the cyto- and syncytio-trophoblast were derived from the granulosa cells that surround the egg when it leaves the ovary; the argument, however, depended on indirect evidence, and although this indirect evidence has further accumulated it is not proposed to discuss it here1.
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GORDON, I. Origin of Placental Trophoblast. Nature 185, 118–119 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185118a0
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