If the placenta is not functioning properly, it can be the limiting factor not only for fetal nutrition, but also for the maternal–fetal exchange of physiological constituents as well as waste products that may represent a pathologic risk to the fetus. Some drugs ingested by the mother may ...
If the placenta is not functioning properly it could be a potential danger to the health of the mother and fetus. Abnormalities can lead to conditions such as preeclampsia, which is maternal high blood pressure, stillbirth or the need for a pre-term delivery. The screening tests include: a m...
it can be a signal that the placenta is not functioning as well. The baby has then "opened" the blood vessel in the brain to protect the brain against the deficiency caused by a malfunctioning placenta. With a placenta that functions suboptimally, the risk of health...
4) has an extraplacental lobe that is not contiguous with the main placental body. This condition may be associated with retained placental tissue or may predispose to rupture of the bridging vessels during delivery. Both these conditions may lead to subsequent postpartum hemorrhage.11-13 In a ...
between any of the three placental tissues and the average of the 16 non-placental tissues as similarly defined in another study [11]; and (2) placenta-specific genes, defined as genes whose RNA-Seq reads were only detected in the placenta but not in any of the 16 non-placental tissues....
2016). For our study, we selected patients with uncomplicated pregnancies, and thus we cannot exclude that high level of placental mRNA for HTRA1 does not affect its serum level. However, we also cannot exclude that some undiagnosed or unnoticeable abnormality might have occurred in samples with...
between any of the three placental tissues and the average of the 16 non-placental tissues as similarly defined in another study [11]; and (2) placenta-specific genes, defined as genes whose RNA-Seq reads were only detected in the placenta but not in any of the 16 non-placental tissues....
"We found that in the placenta, mitochondria have a remarkable ability to adapt and compensate for environmental impacts such as when women are living in low oxygen areas athigh altitudeand not eating enough of a healthy diet during pregnancy." ...
These effects do not just act in low birth weight babies but have been shown to occur within the normal range of birth weight. It is thought that fetal adaptations to an impaired intra-uterine environment may enhance survival in early life but have deleterious effects in later life.Experimental...
In their study, the researchers looked for the amount of maternal DNA in the babies' umbilical cord blood. This is representative of the level of maternal microchimerism the children had at the moment they were born, Harrington said, although it's not known how long that level may persist ...