Xenobiotic and steroid-metabolizing monooxygenases catalysed by cytochrome P450 and glutathione S-transferase conjugations in the human placenta and their relationships to maternal cigarette smoking.

abstract：:Human placental fragments concentrate 86Rb 10--20-fold during a two-hour incubation period. Inhibition of ouabain is dose-dependent, reaching 90 + per cent at a concentration of 5 x 10(-5) M. The clearance index of 86Rb across the perfused human placenta is 0.34 +/- 0.08, comparing to previously reported indices for N...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Dancis J,Kammerman S,Jansen V,Levitz M

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen storage disease type IV (GSD IV) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by glycogen branching enzyme (GBE) deficiency and resulting in the storage of abnormal glycogen (polyglucosan). Prenatal diagnosis is based on biochemical assay of GBE activity or on mutation analysis, but polyglucosan can also be ...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Konstantinidou AE,Anninos H,Dertinger S,Nonni A,Petersen M,Karadimas C,Havaki S,Marinos E,Akman HO,DiMauro S,Patsouris E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to estimate the risk of preeclampsia (PE) associated with in vitro fertilization (IVF) and potential predisposing factors responsible for the observed association. METHODS:This retrospective cohort study included 114485 pregnant women who delivered at the Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Care Hosp...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Gui J,Ling Z,Hou X,Fan Y,Xie K,Shen R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marginal zone of the human term placenta was studied by transmission electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry using antibodies against cytoskeletal filaments, extracellular matrix molecules and endothelial markers. The marginal sinus of the intervillous space is separated from the chorionic and basal plates by...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Nanaev AK,Kosanke G,Kemp B,Frank HG,Huppertz B,Kaufmann P

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosol preparations of human term placenta in Tris-HCl buffer containing dithiothreitol were incubated with [3H]dexamethasone at 4 degrees C. Under these conditions the specific binding of [3H]dexamethasone was low when compared with cytosol preparations of sheep fetal lung or ovine placenta. The inclusion of sodium ...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： López Bernal A,Anderson AB,Turnbull AC

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work was to characterize the uptake of 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP(+)) in the JAR human choriocarcinoma cell line. As JAR cells, as well as the placenta, express the neuronal serotonin transporter (SERT), a comparison between the uptake of (3)H-MPP(+) and (3)H-serotonin ((3)H-5HT) was made. Specif...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Martel F,Keating E

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During early pregnancy, intermediate (extravillous) trophoblast infiltrates the basal plate and invades the spiral arteries, a physiological process required to establish the maternal-fetal circulation. Immunostaining studies have shown that differentiation of trophoblast into this invasive subpopulation is associated...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Shih IeM,Hsu MY,Oldt RJ 3rd,Herlyn M,Gearhart JD,Kurman RJ

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutral endopeptidase 24.11 (NEP) is known to regulate cellular functions by degrading several bioactive peptides, such as gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). The present study was performed to clarify the mechanisms of NEP expression by GnRH in human choriocarcinoma (BeWo) cells. GnRH increased NEP expression and ...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Kikkawa F,Shibata K,Suzuki T,Kajiyama H,Ino K,Nomura S,Mizutani S

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid transport System A (SysA) activity is present within the rodent and human placentas. Inhibition of this transport system is associated with fetal growth retardation. Several cDNAs encoding SysA transport proteins have been discovered, and their presence documented within the human placenta. We have demonstr...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Novak D,Lehman M,Bernstein H,Beveridge M,Cramer S

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：:The human placenta is capable of producing a variety of haematopoietic growth factors in vitro. It is not clear, however, whether the placenta produces such factors in vivo and if so, whether placental production of haematopoietic growth factors has a physiological role in fetal haematopoietic development. As a step t...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Li Y,Calhoun DA,Polliotti BM,Sola MC,al-Mulla Z,Christensen RD

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is associated with adverse pregnancy outcome, usually attributed to hyperglycemia. Recently, we showed that pregnancy outcome in normoglycemic T1D rats was characterized by decreased fetal and placental weight, suggesting impaired placental development. In the present study, we tested...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Groen B,Uuldriks GA,de Vos P,Visser JT,Links TP,Faas MM

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corticosteroid conversion by early (7 to 10 weeks) and late (36 to 42 weeks) human placenta, fetal membranes and decidua was studied. Tritiated cortisol, cortisone, corticosterone, 11-dehydrocorticosterone (DHC) and 11-deoxycorticosterone (DOC) were incubated in vitro with homogenates of these tissues and extracts chr...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： López Bernal A,Craft IL

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The ratio of birthweight to placental weight (BW:PW) is often used as a measure of placental efficiency in humans and animals. However, ratios have properties that are known to lead to spurious results. An alternative approach is the use of residuals from regression, which reflect whether birthweight is hi...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Christians JK,Grynspan D,Greenwood SL,Dilworth MR

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified (>99.99%) primary villous cytotrophoblasts from uncomplicated pregnancies and pregnancies complicated with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) alone, IUGR with pre-eclampsia (IUGR-PE) and PE alone were cultured for 5days and the extent of differentiation into syncytiotrophoblasts measured in terms o...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Newhouse SM,Davidge ST,Winkler-Lowen B,Demianczuk N,Guilbert LJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate localization and content of activin beta A-subunit and activin receptors in gestational tissues throughout pregnancy and in association with term labour. Placenta and fetal membranes were collected from women undergoing first and second trimester terminations and from women bef...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Schneider-Kolsky ME,Manuelpillai U,Waldron K,Dole A,Wallace EM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension is one of the major clinical manifestations of preeclampsia. Vascular dysfunction is crucial for the occurrence and progression of hypertension. Exosomes are emerging as mediators of intercellular communication and can participate in angiogenesis. In this study, we hypothesize that umbilical cord plasma-d...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Ying X,Zhu Y,Jin X,Chang X

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Preeclampsia (PE) carries increased risks of cardiovascular- and metabolic diseases in mothers and offspring during the life course. While the severe early-onset PE (EOPE) phenotype originates from impaired placentation in early pregnancy, late-onset PE (LOPE) is in particular associated with pre-existing ...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Herzog EM,Eggink AJ,Willemsen SP,Slieker RC,Wijnands KPJ,Felix JF,Chen J,Stubbs A,van der Spek PJ,van Meurs JB,Steegers-Theunissen RPM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decidualization process involves the morphological and functional transformation of endometrial stromal cells into decidual cells. This is a finely regulated process, which involves proliferation and differentiation of stromal cells into decidual cells, which is followed by regression of the decidual tissue, mainly by...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Fonseca BM,Teixeira NA,Almada M,Taylor AH,Konje JC,Correia-da-Silva G

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marijuana is one of the most abused drugs among pregnant women leading to maternal and fetal abnormalities. Cannabinoids are the active ingredients of marijuana, which interact with cannabinoid receptors such as CNR1 and CNR2 to activate cellular signaling pathways. Human endometrium and placenta are known to express ...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Neradugomma NK,Drafton K,O'Day DR,Liao MZ,Han LW,Glass IA,Mao Q

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal maternal lipid profiles, a hallmark of increased maternal adiposity, are associated with pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia and gestational diabetes, and offspring long-term metabolic health is impacted as the consequence of altered fetal growth, physiology and often iatrogenic prematurity. The meta...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Delhaes F,Giza SA,Koreman T,Eastabrook G,McKenzie CA,Bedell S,Regnault TRH,de Vrijer B

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preterm birth is a leading cause of child morbidity and mortality, so strategies to reduce early birth must remain a priority. One key approach to enhancing birth outcomes is improving maternal dietary intake. Therefore, the purpose of this review is to discuss mechanisms on perinatal status of fat-soluble nutrients (...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Thoene M,Van Ormer M,Yuil-Valdes A,Bruett T,Natarajan SK,Mukherjee M,Thompson M,Nordgren TM,Van Lippevelde W,Overby NC,Adu-Bonsaffoh K,Anderson-Berry A,Hanson C

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When cultured in keratinocyte growth medium, mononuclear cytotrophoblast cells aggregate into multicellular colonies which then fuse to form multinucleated syncytiotrophoblast. In an attempt to characterize better the mechanism of human trophoblast differentiation and to obtain information about the role of the cytosk...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Douglas GC,King BF

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme oxygenase (HO) is the rate-limiting enzyme in the heme catabolic pathway and highly expressed in the placenta. Deficiencies in HO-1, the inducible isoform, have been associated with pregnancy disorders, such as recurrent miscarriages, intrauterine growth retardation, and pre-eclampsia. The aim of this study was t...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Zhao H,Wong RJ,Kalish FS,Nayak NR,Stevenson DK

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Microbial-specific factors are likely critical in determining whether bacteria trigger preterm labor. Structural variations in lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a component of gram-negative bacteria, can determine whether LPS has an inflammatory (agonist) or anti-inflammatory (antagonist) effect through Toll-like re...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Chang J,Jain S,Carl DJ,Paolella L,Darveau RP,Gravett MG,Adams Waldorf KM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeres are nucleoprotein structures located at the termini of chromosomes. They are essential for chromosome stability. Telomeres become shorter due to mitotic cycles and environmental factors. When telomeres are shortened and therefore dysfunctional, cellular senescence occurs and organ dysfunction might develop. ...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Biron-Shental T,Sadeh-Mestechkin D,Amiel A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A role for Substance P (SP) in human placenta is not known, although is possible that regulates placental physiology through the Neurokinin (NK)-1 receptor. Ten human normal placenta tissues were studied by immunohistochemistry to demonstrate the localization of NK-1 receptor and SP. An immunostaining pattern for NK-1...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Muñoz M,Pavón A,Rosso M,Salinas MV,Pérez A,Carranza A,González-Ortega A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is an inducible catabolic process activated during compromised conditions, such as hypoxia. Neonatal encephalopathy (NE) is a syndrome of disturbed neurological function. No absolute prognostic indicators are available at birth to identify neonates at high risk to develop NE. Immunohistochemical staining wit...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Avagliano L,Danti L,Doi P,Felis S,Guala M,Locatelli A,Maffeo I,Mecacci F,Plevani C,Simeone S,Bulfamante GP

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the association between velamentous cord insertion (VCI) and different outcomes in monochorionic twins with and without twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). METHODS:We recorded the cord insertion type in all consecutive monochorionic placentas examined in two tertiary medical centers. The associat...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Costa-Castro T,De Villiers S,Montenegro N,Severo M,Oepkes D,Matias A,Lopriore E

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the placental activity for the transport of amino acids, the uptake of L-alanine was investigated by rapid membrane filtration using brush border membrane vesicles separated from the human placenta of early pregnant (12-13 gestational weeks) and late pregnant (37-38 gestational weeks) women. The uptake...

journal_title：Placenta

authors： Iioka H,Hisanaga H,Moriyama IS,Akada S,Shimamoto T,Yamada Y,Ichijo M

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00