Development of the human placenta

MY Turco, A Moffett - Development, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
The placenta is essential for normal in utero development in mammals. In humans, defective
placental formation underpins common pregnancy disorders such as pre-eclampsia and …

Human placenta and trophoblast development: key molecular mechanisms and model systems

M Knöfler, S Haider, L Saleh, J Pollheimer… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Abnormal placentation is considered as an underlying cause of various pregnancy
complications such as miscarriage, preeclampsia and intrauterine growth restriction, the …

Number and function of uterine natural killer cells in recurrent miscarriage and implantation failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis

E Von Woon, O Greer, N Shah… - Human …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Uterine natural killer cells (uNK) are the most abundant lymphocytes found
in the decidua during implantation and in first trimester pregnancy. They are important for …

Evolution of the immune system in humans from infancy to old age

AK Simon, GA Hollander… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This article reviews the development of the immune response through neonatal, infant and
adult life, including pregnancy, ending with the decline in old age. A picture emerges of a …

Spatial and single-cell transcriptomics decipher the cellular environment containing HLA-G+ cancer cells and SPP1+ macrophages in colorectal cancer

Y Ozato, Y Kojima, Y Kobayashi, Y Hisamatsu… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The cellular interactions in the tumor microenvironment of colorectal cancer (CRC) are
poorly understood, hindering patient treatment. In the current study, we investigate whether …

Regulation of placental extravillous trophoblasts by the maternal uterine environment

J Pollheimer, S Vondra, J Baltayeva… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
During placentation invasive extravillous trophoblasts (EVTs) migrate into the maternal
uterus and modify its vessels. In particular, remodeling of the spiral arteries by EVTs is …

[HTML][HTML] Deregulation of HLA-I in cancer and its central importance for immunotherapy

A Hazini, K Fisher, L Seymour - Journal for immunotherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It is now well accepted that many tumors undergo a process of clonal selection which means
that tumor antigens arising at various stages of tumor progression are likely to be …

Self-renewing trophoblast organoids recapitulate the developmental program of the early human placenta

S Haider, G Meinhardt, L Saleh, V Kunihs, M Gamperl… - Stem cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Defective placentation is the underlying cause of various pregnancy complications, such as
severe intrauterine growth restriction and preeclampsia. However, studies on human …

A single-cell survey of the human first-trimester placenta and decidua

H Suryawanshi, P Morozov, A Straus… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
The placenta and decidua interact dynamically to enable embryonic and fetal development.
Here, we report single-cell RNA sequencing of 14,341 and 6754 cells from first-trimester …

Roles of HLA-G in the maternal-fetal immune microenvironment

X Xu, Y Zhou, H Wei - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
During pregnancy, the maternal uterus and fetus form a special microenvironment at the
maternal-fetal interface to support fetal development. Extravillous trophoblasts (EVTs) …