Background: Peripartal asphyxia affects the foetus and the placenta with its functions. This can be studied by the dual in vitro placenta perfusion model enabling the separated ex vivo perfusion of ...

In the human placenta, there are placental villi, and the surface of the villi consists of syncytiotrophoblast, also called barrier cells, that serve as the main barrier against foreign substances.

The placenta never fails to amaze. The conventions that we take for granted as required for the normal formation and function of other organs are often flouted by placental trophoblasts, the ...

Chorionic villus sampling is a prenatal diagnostic test performed for prenatal genetic testing involving a biopsy of placental tissue between 10 to 13 weeks gestation. The tissue harvested is the ...

New three-dimensional imaging of the human placenta has been developed to help understand the reasons for fetal growth restriction. New three-dimensional imaging of the human placenta has been ...

Using the very latest wide-bore magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning equipment at the University of Nottingham experts found differences in blood flow to the placenta in healthy and pre-eclampsia ...

About one million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage each year. Additionally, about 20,000 end at or after 20 weeks of pregnancy in stillbirth, with about 50% of these cases ...

Placental insufficiency is a serious condition that happens when the placenta doesn’t work as well as it should. The placenta is an organ that forms in your uterus when you’re pregnant. It carries ...