The placenta is an amazing structure ... contacts the villous surface, and leaves through the uterine veins. Fetal blood travels from the umbilical arteries to fetal capillaries that contact ...

"Our work addresses a critical challenge in maternal and fetal health ... enhanced surface-enhanced spectroscopic detection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the human placenta, Proceedings ...

In the mouse developing embryo, she previously demonstrated a bias at the two-cell stage: one cell contributed more to fetal tissue and the other to the placenta ... cell mass rather than remain on ...

and/or into the fetal blood to the placenta. Amniotic fluid volume changes often correlate with neonatal diseases secondary to the inability of the fetus to remove amniotic fluid or contribute to ...