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Michelle Desforges

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Publications

15

Citations

606

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Active since

2005

Affiliations

University of Manchester(Current)

Manchester Academic Health Science Centre

St Mary's Hospital

St Mary's Hospital

University of Cambridge

Michelle Desforges is an author at University of Manchester specializing in medicine, placental development, and placental function.

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Publications per year

2005–2022

15

Publications

15

SNAT4 isoform of system A amino acid transporter is expressed in human placenta

Michelle Desforges, Helen A. Lacey, Jocelyn D. Glazier et al. · American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology · 2005 · 111 citations

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Maternal obesity is associated with a reduction in placental taurine transporter activity

A Ditchfield, Michelle Desforges, Tracey Mills et al. · International Journal of Obesity · 2014 · 66 citations · Full text

Diet‐induced maternal obesity impacts feto‐placental growth and induces sex‐specific alterations in placental morphology, mitochondrial bioenergetics, dynamics, lipid metabolism and oxidative stress in mice

Tina Napso, Samantha C. Lean, Minhui Lu et al. · Acta Physiologica · 2022 · 64 citations · Full text

The contribution of SNAT1 to system A amino acid transporter activity in human placental trophoblast

Michelle Desforges, Susan Greenwood, Jocelyn D. Glazier et al. · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications · 2010 · 56 citations · Full text

Methods for siRNA-mediated Reduction of mRNA and Protein Expression in Human Placental Explants, Isolated Primary Cells and Cell Lines

Karen Forbes, Michelle Desforges, Rebecca Garside et al. · Placenta · 2008 · 49 citations · Full text

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