Crossing mice deficient in eNOS with placental-specific Igf2 knockout mice: a new model of fetal growth restriction.

abstract：:Eleven placentae and one fibroblast cell culture from pregnancies complicated by various inherited metabolic disorders, together with five chorionic villus biopsies from pregnancies at risk, were examined for ultrastructural evidence of accumulation of metabolites. Abnormal ultrastructural features were present as ear...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Jones CJ,Lendon M,Chawner LE,Jauniaux E

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Alterations of apoptosis are commonly associated with pregnancy complications and abortion. Modulation of apoptosis is a relevant feature of Toxoplasma gondii infection and it is related to parasite strain types. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the possible factors that are involved in the dif...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Angeloni MB,Guirelli PM,Franco PS,Barbosa BF,Gomes AO,Castro AS,Silva NM,Martins-Filho OA,Mineo TW,Silva DA,Mineo JR,Ferro EA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Placentas and plasma from women with and without Chagas' disease and cultures of human placental villi with Trypanosoma cruzi, neuraminidase, phospholipase A2 and phospholipase C were analyzed in order to verify if the alterations in placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) enzyme activity are caused by T. cruzi as obser...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Lin S,Sartori MJ,Mezzano L,de Fabro SP

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Chronic abruption oligohydramnios sequence (CAOS) is histologically characterized by diffuse chorioamniotic hemosiderosis (DCH). However, the criteria for the histological evaluation of the extent of CAOS-related hemosiderin deposition (HD) of the membranes and the difference in HD between the chorionic pl...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Ishida A,Minamiguchi S,Yamada Y,Nakagawa R,Chigusa Y,Kondoh E,Mandai M,Haga H

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is the first hormonal message from the placenta to the mother. It is detectable in maternal blood two days after implantation and behaves like an agonist of LH stimulating progesterone secretion by the corpus luteum. hCG has also a role in quiescence of the myometrium and local immun...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Fournier T,Guibourdenche J,Evain-Brion D

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human placental villi are surfaced by an outer multinucleated syncytiotrophoblast and underlying mononucleated cytotrophoblasts. Conflicting data have attributed one, or the other, of these villous trophoblast phenotypes to undergo enhanced apoptosis in complicated pregnancies, compared to term, normotensive pregnanci...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Longtine MS,Chen B,Odibo AO,Zhong Y,Nelson DM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Receptor-activator of NF-κB ligand (TNFSF11, also known as RANKL) and its receptor RANK are essential regulators on bone remodeling, mammary gland development and hormone-associated breast cancer development. However, the expression pattern and role of RANKL/RANK axis in decidual stromal cells (DSCs) are uncl...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Meng YH,Li H,Chen X,Liu LB,Shao J,Chang KK,Du MR,Jin LP,Li MQ,Li DJ

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have shown that pregnancies complicated by placentas with an isolated single umbilical artery (iSUA) are at increased risk for small-for-gestational-age (SGA) births. The etiology of SGA in this population, however, remains unknown. OBJECTIVE:The primary objective of this study was to evalu...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Battarbee AN,Palatnik A,Ernst LM,Grobman WA

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implantation in the dusky leaf monkey, Presbytis obscura, is superficial; the placenta is of the double discoid villous haemochorial type. Immediately prior to implantation the thick endometrium contains highly active uterine glands. There is an early uterine epithelial proliferation at the implantation site but no st...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Burton GJ

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeodomain (HDM) proteins encoded by homeobox (HBX) genes represent a large family of transcriptional factors that control differentiation and development in certain cell types. DLX4 is a member of Distal-less (DLX) family of HBX genes. Recent studies have demonstrated that abnormal expression of DLX4 is present in s...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Sun Y,Lu X,Yin L,Zhao F,Feng Y

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy-associated placental protein-A (PAPP-A), first isolated from maternal serum, has been identified as a metalloprotease cleaving insulin-like growth factor binding protein-4 (IGFBP-4). The source of PAPP-A during pregnancy is unclear. We therefore investigated PAPP-A expression during in vitro human villous cy...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Guibourdenche J,Frendo JL,Pidoux G,Bertin G,Luton D,Muller F,Porquet D,Evain-Brion D

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthine dehydrogenase/oxidase (XDH, EC 1.1.1.204, XO, EC 1.2.3.2) produces uric acid, and in the oxidase form also generates the free radical superoxide. Previous reports failed to demonstrate XDH/XO activity in human placenta. Our objective was to determine evidence of XDH/XO in human placenta. We developed a cDNA p...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Many A,Westerhausen-Larson A,Kanbour-Shakir A,Roberts JM

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensinogen is the substrate for the enzyme renin. In addition to the well-characterized low molecular weight forms of angiotensinogen, a high molecular weight form (HMrA) comprises about 15 per cent of the total angiotensinogen in plasma of pregnant women. In the current study the different forms of angiotensinog...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Lenz T,Sealey JE,Tewksbury DA

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic maternal asthma is associated with reduced growth of the female fetus and normal growth of the male fetus. The mechanisms that control the differential effects of maternal asthma on the fetus have not been fully elucidated but alterations in placental function may play a role. In the current study we...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Osei-Kumah A,Smith R,Jurisica I,Caniggia I,Clifton VL

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ontogeny of Ia antigen expression on cells within the decidua basalis of the placenta and on decidual cells differentiating in vitro was investigated in the mouse. The results indicate that Ia antigen expression is temporarily restricted and can be detected in short-term cultures of decidual tissue only during the...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Searle RF,Bell SC,Billington WD

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Preeclampsia (PE) is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide. Recently, the role of epigenetic modifications in preeclampsia has been a focus of research. This study was to identified genes or pathways that may be associated with PE, and discuss whether the changes in the me...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Li Y,Cui S,Shi W,Yang B,Yuan Y,Yan S,Li Y,Xu Y,Zhang Z,Linlin Zhang

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent demonstrations of transferrin (TF) mRNA in placental tissue raised the possibility that the placenta may serve as an extra-hepatic source of this iron-binding protein during development. In this study, we first confirmed these findings using cRNA probes for TF, and then adapted the TF reverse haemolytic plaque ...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Boockfor FR,Harris SE,Barto JM,Bonner JM

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was based on the hypothesis that both primary sequence and methylation status of the GTPase activating protein (GAP) gene limits expression of p100 GAP to primate placenta. Due to alternate splicing, a 65-bp insert appears between the first and second coding exons of p100 GAP mRNA, and translation of p100 G...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Liao L,Trouba KJ,Vorce RL

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Menstruation occurs only in higher primates, some bats, the spiny mouse and the elephant shrew. Our knowledge of the latter species is due to work by C. J. van der Horst. FINDINGS:Changes in the uterine stroma are initially similar in fertile and infertile cycles and are confined to a small area. In pregnan...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Carter AM

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of nickel (Ni) uptake, transfer, retention and clearance in fetuses and late gestational rats were investigated by assessing its distributions in placenta, maternal and fetal organs and tissues during the 24 h period after a single dose of (63)Ni intraperitoneal injection on gestational day 20. Peak (63)N...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Hou YP,Gu JY,Shao YF,Song YF,Jing YH,Wu WS,Pu S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Placental hypoxia has been implicated in pregnancy pathologies such as preeclampsia. We have previously reported that AQP9 is highly expressed in syncytiotrophoblast from normal placentas and shows an overexpression in preeclamptic placentas, with a lack of functionality for water transport. Up to now, the r...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Castro-Parodi M,Szpilbarg N,Dietrich V,Sordelli M,Reca A,Abán C,Maskin B,Farina MG,Damiano AE

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uterine endometrium responds to blastocyst implantation with extensive proliferation and differentiation of stromal cells into decidual cells, forming the antimesometrial and mesometrial decidua. These undergo regression by apoptosis but as this process occurs at different time periods suggest that there is spatia...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Correia-da-Silva G,Bell SC,Pringle JH,Teixeira NA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alphafetoprotein (AFP) is detectable in maternal serum from around six weeks of gestation and is synthesised by the yolk sac and the fetal liver. The role of the placenta in the transport and possible synthesis of AFP is uncertain. The aim of this study was to investigate placental expression of AFP and the AFP recept...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Newby D,Dalgliesh G,Lyall F,Aitken DA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal infection of Trypanosoma cruzi is associated with premature births, abortions and placentitis. A decrease in EGF levels has been suggested to occur in animals infected by T. cruzi, but there is no research about the levels of EGF in human patients with Chagas' disease. We evaluated serum EGF levels in pregnan...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Lin S,Sartori MJ,Mezzano L,de Fabro SP

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The placenta receives two arterial blood supplies, i.e. one maternal and one fetal. It has been suggested that placental infarction should occur only if both blood supplies are compromised (Wigglesworth, 1984). This hypothesis has not been tested. Haemosiderosis of the trophoblast basement membrane (TBMH) has recently...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： McDermott M,Gillan JE

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor (EGF) and its homologue, transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha), regulate human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) synthesis in the human placenta. The current study was designed to investigate the involvement of the protein kinase C pathway in EGF-mediated hCG-beta production by JAr choriocarc...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Baker VL,Murai JT,Taylor RN

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The epithelium of the human placenta comprises an inner cytotrophoblast (CT) which proliferates and fuses with the outer differentiated syncytiotrophoblast (ST). Turnover has been studied focussing on second and third trimester placentas but with a paucity of data describing the normal first trimester tropho...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Bose P,Kadyrov M,Goldin R,Hahn S,Backos M,Regan L,Huppertz B

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryo implantation in the human and rodents relies on the trophoblast's ability to invade into the uterine stroma, partly depending on proteinases degrading components of basement membrane and underlying extracellular matrix (ECM). We have utilized mouse trophoblast stem (TS) cells (Science, 1998, 282:2072) to study ...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Lei T,Hohn HP,Behr R,Denker HW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amniotic fluid exerts a protective function and is an essential component for foetal development and maturation during pregnancy. However, little is known about the exact physiological functions of foetal fluids in this process as well as their biochemical composition in cats. In the present study, the biochemical com...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Fresno L,Rodriguez-Gil JE,Rigau T,Pastor J,Rivera del Alamo MM

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated whether maternal peripheral blood from the first trimester of pregnancy is a reliable source of identifiable trophoblast cells. The cells were enriched from 30 ml of venous blood, with multiple antibodies shown previously to enrich trophoblasts and a new cocktail based on known trophoblast surface...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Schueler PA,Yamanishi DT,Pearson J,Lee Y,Wu X,Hashima S,Madlansacay MR,Cain CA,Collarini EJ,Foltz L,Mahoney W

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00