The placenta in fetal growth restriction: what is going wrong?

C Sun, KM Groom, C Oyston, LW Chamley, AR Clark… - Placenta, 2020 - Elsevier
The placenta is essential for the efficient delivery of nutrients and oxygen from mother to
fetus to maintain normal fetal growth. Dysfunctional placental development underpins many …

Placental adaptation: what can we learn from birthweight: placental weight ratio?

CE Hayward, S Lean, CP Sibley, RL Jones… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Appropriate fetal growth relies upon adequate placental nutrient transfer. Birthweight:
placental weight ratio (BW: PW ratio) is often used as a proxy for placental efficiency, defined …

[HTML][HTML] Selective targeting of a novel vasodilator to the uterine vasculature to treat impaired uteroplacental perfusion in pregnancy

N Cureton, I Korotkova, B Baker, S Greenwood… - Theranostics, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Fetal growth restriction (FGR) in pregnancy is commonly caused by impaired uteroplacental
blood flow. Vasodilators enhance uteroplacental perfusion and fetal growth in humans and …

Flow in fetoplacental-like microvessels in vitro enhances perfusion, barrier function, and matrix stability

M Cherubini, S Erickson, P Padmanaban… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Proper placental vascularization is vital for pregnancy outcomes, but assessing it with
animal models and human explants has limitations. We introduce a 3D in vitro model of …

Treating the dysfunctional placenta

CP Sibley - Journal of Endocrinology, 2017 - joe.bioscientifica.com
Placental dysfunction underlies major obstetric diseases such as pre-eclampsia and fetal
growth restriction (FGR). Whilst there has been a little progress in prophylaxis, there are still …

Piezo1 channels are mechanosensors in human fetoplacental endothelial cells

LC Morley, J Shi, HJ Gaunt, AJ Hyman… - MHR: Basic science …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
STUDY QUESTION Does the shear stress sensing ion channel subunit Piezo1 have an
important mechanotransduction role in human fetoplacental endothelium? SUMMARY …

Whole organ vascular casting and microCT examination of the human placental vascular tree reveals novel alterations associated with pregnancy disease

TO Junaid, RS Bradley, RM Lewis, JD Aplin… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Experimental methods that allow examination of the intact vascular network of large organs,
such as the human placenta are limited, preventing adequate comparison of normal and …

Causal relationship between obesity-related traits and TLR4-driven responses at the maternal–fetal interface

X Yang, M Li, M Haghiac, PM Catalano… - Diabetologia, 2016 - Springer
Aims/hypothesis Obesity triggers complex inflammatory networks within the innate immune
system. During pregnancy, the placenta amplifies the low-grade inflammation through …

[HTML][HTML] Placental blood flow sensing and regulation in fetal growth restriction

LC Morley, M Debant, JJ Walker, DJ Beech… - Placenta, 2021 - Elsevier
The mechanical force of blood flow is a fundamental determinant of vascular homeostasis.
This frictional stimulation of cells, fluid shear stress (FSS), is increasingly recognised as …

Pregnancy‐associated venous insufficiency course with placental and systemic oxidative stress

MA Ortega, B Romero, Á Asúnsolo… - Journal of Cellular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The development of lower extremity venous insufficiency (VI) during pregnancy has been
associated with placental damage. VI is associated with increased oxidative stress in …