It can be difficult to decide whether to expedite birth when a woman in the final stage of pregnancy perceives fewer fetal ...

The median ADMA concentration was three times higher in the fetal circulation than in the maternal circulation, but there was no difference between the preeclampsia group and the control group ...

Dr. Andrea Desai, a maternal and fetal medicine specialist at the University of Maryland ... "Pregnant people should not sleep flat on their back without support as it can compromise circulation," ...

The cytokines circulating in the maternal blood reach the syncytiotrophoblasts, specialized epithelial cells that form the outermost layer of the placenta, a barrier that separates maternal and fetal ...

Using single-cell RNA sequencing, researchers created a comprehensive map of crosstalk between fetal and maternal cells during labor.

The 2022 Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award is awarded to Yuk Ming Dennis Lo for identifying fetal DNA in the maternal circulation, a discovery that led to a revolution in prenatal ...

With that cellular trafficking, science shows that a portion of fetal cells stay in a maternal body after giving birth. They may exist there for months, years or even decades.

Beside the maternal uteroplacental circulation, the fetal blood circulates in the small blood vessels, including fetal capillaries, through the placenta, where the maternal and fetal blood ...

IN 1941 Levine et al.1 proposed an etiology for erythroblastosis fetalis that required the entrance of fetal red blood cells into the maternal circulation. This requirement then led to the question ...

Immune activation in a pregnant woman can have negative effects on the development of fetal brain microglia—or macrophage immune cells in the brain—and even lead to neurodevelopmental ...

Graduates from Saint Louis University’s maternal-fetal medicine fellowship program are well-prepared for a career in academic medicine (teaching, research, scholarly inquiry) and to provide clinical ...

Maternal microbiota can affect fetal development Date: November 1, 2023 Source: University of Helsinki Summary: Significant differences in the gene activity of the fetal intestine, brain and ...