. . . . . . . "[The expression of two recently identified iodide transporters, namely the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS) and pendrin, the product of the gene responsible for the Pendred syndrome (PDS), was studied using real-time kinetic quantitative PCR and immunohistochemistry 1) in placental tissues collected at different gestational ages and 2) in primary cultures of villous cytotrophoblast cells (VCT) that differentiate and fuse over 2-3 days in vitro to form villous syncytiotrophoblast (VSCT) cells.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2017-02-19"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2017-10-17T13:15:16+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v5.0.0.0" . "v5.0.0" .