Morphologic and molecular changes in the placenta: what we can learn from environmental exposures

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 930-940

  Vrooman, Lisa A ^a   Xin, Frances ^a   Bartolomei, Marisa S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

assisted reproductive technologies; endocrine disrupting chemicals; epigenetics; Placenta

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FERTILITY PROMOTING AGENT; POLLUTANT;

DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC AND PLACENTAL STRUCTURES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PLACENTA; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84989881993     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.08.016     Document Type: Review

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