Changes in fetal capillaries during preplacental hypoxia: Growth, shape remodelling and villous capillarization in placentae from high-altitude pregnancies

Placenta

Volumn 24, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 191-198

  Mayhew, Terry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FETUS HYPOXIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA VILLUS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEREOLOGY; ANOXIA; CAPILLARY; CHORION VILLUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LABOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; CAPILLARIES; CHORIONIC VILLI; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0037659703     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/plac.2002.0895     Document Type: Article

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