Placental growth hormone (PGH) is synthesized in and secreted from the human placental syncytiotrophoblast (1) into the maternal circulation in a nonpulsatile manner, detectable in the maternal ...

During human pregnancy, the maternal immune system develops and changes, providing protection for the growing placenta and fetus. These protective changes provide mechanisms allowing two ...

The processes involved in placental development are highly regulated to ensure normal growth of the developing fetal tissues and the maintenance of a healthy pregnancy. A unique function of the ...

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Fredrick Rosario-Joseph and colleagues created a line of mice in which the trophoblast-;the main cell type in the placenta ...

Conventional human pluripotent stem cells at the primed pluripotent state are capable of generating all the embryonic lineages. However, their extraembryonic trophectoderm potentials is limited.