The fetal membranes consist of the chorion ... The chorion lies closest to the placenta. The chorionic sac encompasses the fetus and the amnion and is covered with chorionic villi until the ...

Sofía, Philomena, Veronica and Isabel Campos have one heckuva birth story. The identical quadruplets, born at Banner - ...

Preterm birth can be triggered by multiple factors involving the pregnant person, the fetus, the placenta or the fetal ...

Comparing placental stress responses in COVID-19 and preeclampsia revealed similarities that may help explain the overlapping presentation of these clinical syndromes. “It's well known that maternal ...

The outer membrane (chorion ... and hormone synthesis of either peptides or steroids that regulate placental and fetal growth, and maternal systems with the protection of pregnancy.

You aren’t born with a placenta. Instead it develops in your uterus during pregnancy and acts as life-support for your growing baby. Then once delivery is said and done, it, too, is expelled ...

She and her team first tracked cell lineage from the two-cell stage; they injected mRNA for green fluorescent protein (GFP) fused to a membrane ... the placenta and the inner cell mass (ICM) that ...