The placenta: from development to disease

INDICE: List of Contributors. Foreword. Preface. Part 1: Fetal origins of adult disease/programming. 1 Maternal Undernutrition and Fetal Programming: Role of the Placenta (Louiza Belkacemi, D. Michael Nelson, Mina Desai and MichaelG. Ross). 2 Cardiovascular Health and Maternal Placental Syndromes (Shahzya SHuda and Ian A. Greer). Part 2: Placental development, physiology and immunology. 3 Development and Anatomy of the Human Placenta (Roxane Rampersad, Mila Cervar-Zivkovic and D. Michael Nelson). 4 Immunologic Aspects of Pregnancy (Joan S. Hunt and Margaret G. Petroff). 5 Vascular Development in the Placenta (Berthold Huppertz). 6 Hypoxia and the Placenta (Stacy Zamudio). 7 Placental Metabolism (Nicholas P. Illsley). 8 Placental Hormones: Physiology, Disease and Prenatal Diagnosis (Jennifer M. McNamara and Helen H. Kay). 9 Placental Transferin Health and Disease (Caroline Wright and Colin P. Sibley). 10 Placental FatTrafficking (Christina Scifres and Yoel Sadovsky). 11 Maternal-Fetal Cell Trafficking and Microchimerism (Hilary S. Gammill, Suzanne E. Peterson and J. LeeNelson). 12 Imprinting in the Human Placenta (Shu Wen and Ignatia B. Van den Veyver). 13 Placental membranes and amniotic fluid retention (Marie H. Beall and Michael G. Ross). Part 3: Examination of the placenta, membranes, cord. 14 Examination of the Placenta, Membranes and Cord (Frederick T. Kraus). 15 The Umbilical Cord (Raymond W. Redline). 16 Ultrasound Imaging and Doppler Studies of the Placenta (Methodius G. Tuuli and Anthony O. Odibo). 17 Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Positron Emission Tomography of the Placenta (Christine H. Comstock and Helen H. Kay). 18 Chorionic Villous Sampling and Amniocentesis (Marion S. Verp). 19 Cordocentesis and Fetoscopy (Cristiano Jodicke and Ray Bahado-Singh). Part 4: Research techniques to study the placenta. 20 Trophoblast Isolation and Culture (Mila Cervar-Zivkovic and Christina Stern). 21 Isolation and Culture of Human Umbilical Cord Vein Endothelial Cells (Yuping Wang). 22 Perfusion Technique for Studying the Placenta Cotyledon (Leslie Myatt). 23 Three-Dimensional Culture Modeling of the Placenta (Douglas A. Kniss and Teng Ma). 24 The Use of Ultrasound Contrast Agents in Placental Imaging (Jacques S. Abramowicz). 25 Microscopy and the Placenta (William E. Ackerman IV, Toshihiro Takizawa and John M. Robinson). 26 Proteomics & the Placenta (Gregory E. Rice). 27 Stable Isotope Methodologies for the Study of Transport and Metabolism In Vivo (Irene Cetin and Chiara Mandò). Part 5: Medical diseases and complications. 28The Role of the Placenta in Autoimmune Disease and Early Pregnancy Loss (Daniel L Jackson and Danny J. Schust). 29 The Placenta in Preterm Prelabor Ruptureof Membranes and Preterm Labor (Chong Jai Kim, Roberto Romero and Sonia S. Hassan). 30 Diabetes and the Placenta (Ursula Hiden, Julia Froehlich and Gernot Desoye). 31 Placental Origins of Intrauterine Gro

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-3366-4
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 18/03/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés