Background: Previous studies of maternal risk factors for abnormal placental growth have focused on placental weight and placental ratio as measures of placental growth. We sought to identify maternal ...
Preeclampsia has known associations with insufficient placental perfusion. The large-conductance Ca 2+-activated K + (BKca) channels that have recently been found to play important roles in cellular ...
A maternal response to ascending bacterial infection often results in neutrophilic infiltration of the placental membranes and chorionic plate (chorioamnionitis). Conversely, acute vasculitis of ...