The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2007;41(7):1174-1180. Well-designed studies using the in vitro human placental cotyledon model, as well as in vivo studies, have demonstrated that while metformin ...

Placental abruption is a life-threatening pregnancy complication that occurs when the placenta prematurely separates from the wall of the uterus. It reduces the fetus's oxygen and nutrient supply and ...

It is a multi-stage disease with the maldevelopment and/or dysfunction of distinct trophoblast lineages of the placenta at the center of the disease. Villous and extravillous trophoblast (EVT) ...

growth and development resources from the mother for the nine months of pregnancy.The placenta is attached to the uterus by button-like organs called cotyledons that snugly latch onto ...

The research team observed that maternal stress may leave epigenetic marks on certain placental genes. Specifically, these marks do not modify the genetic structure, but they do alter its function.

Maternal tissues are shown in yellow to emphasize the role of apoplastic transfer. Sucrose (SUC) is first cleaved by vacuolar and cell wall invertases (INV) operating in the pedicel, the ...

Episode 149For the Love of Goats In this episode, host Deborah Niemann shares the emotional and educational story of Caboose, the first goat on her farm to undergo a C-section. As part of the ...