Thinning of the intervascular tissue layers of the human placenta is an adaptive response to passive diffusion in vivo and may help to predict the origins of fetal hypoxia

European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 101-109

  Mayhew, Terry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intervascular layers; Placenta; Stereology; Thickness; Villi

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; WAX;

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS HYPOXIA; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACENTA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STEREOLOGY; STROMA; THICKNESS; TROPHOBLAST; VARIANCE;

EID: 0032189642     PISSN: 03012115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-2115(98)00154-7     Document Type: Article

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