Table of Contents

List of Contributors.
Foreword.


Preface.


Part 1: Fetal origins of adult disease/programming.


1 Maternal Undernutrition and Fetal Programming: Role of the
Placenta (Louiza Belkacemi, D. Michael Nelson, Mina Desai and
Michael G. Ross).


2 Cardiovascular Health and Maternal Placental Syndromes
(Shahzya S Huda and Ian A. Greer).


Part 2: Placental development, physiology and
immunology.


3 Development and Anatomy of the Human Placenta (Roxane
Rampersad, Mila Cervar-Zivkovic and D. Michael Nelson).


4 Immunologic Aspects of Pregnancy (Joan S. Hunt and Margaret
G. Petroff).


5 Vascular Development in the Placenta (Berthold
Huppertz).


6 Hypoxia and the Placenta (Stacy Zamudio).


7 Placental Metabolism (Nicholas P. Illsley).


8 Placental Hormones: Physiology, Disease and Prenatal Diagnosis
(Jennifer M. McNamara and Helen H. Kay).


9 Placental Transfer in Health and Disease (Caroline Wright
and Colin P. Sibley).


10 Placental Fat Trafficking (Christina Scifres and Yoel
Sadovsky).


11 Maternal-Fetal Cell Trafficking and Microchimerism (Hilary
S. Gammill, Suzanne E. Peterson and J. Lee Nelson).


12 Imprinting in the Human Placenta (Shu Wen and Ignatia B.
Van den Veyver).


13 Placental membranes and amniotic fluid retention (Marie H.
Beall and Michael G. Ross).


Part 3: Examination of the placenta, membranes, cord.


14 Examination of the Placenta, Membranes and Cord (Frederick
T. Kraus).


15 The Umbilical Cord (Raymond W. Redline).


16 Ultrasound Imaging and Doppler Studies of the Placenta
(Methodius G. Tuuli and Anthony O. Odibo).


17 Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Positron Emission Tomography
of the Placenta (Christine H. Comstock and Helen H.
Kay).


18 Chorionic Villous Sampling and Amniocentesis (Marion S.
Verp).


19 Cordocentesis and Fetoscopy (Cristiano Jodicke and Ray
Bahado-Singh).


Part 4: Research techniques to study the placenta.


20 Trophoblast Isolation and Culture (Mila Cervar-Zivkovic
and Christina Stern).


21 Isolation and Culture of Human Umbilical Cord Vein
Endothelial Cells (Yuping Wang).


22 Perfusion Technique for Studying the Placenta Cotyledon
(Leslie Myatt).


23 Three-Dimensional Culture Modeling of the Placenta
(Douglas A. Kniss and Teng Ma).


24 The Use of Ultrasound Contrast Agents in Placental Imaging
(Jacques S. Abramowicz).


25 Microscopy and the Placenta (William E. Ackerman IV,
Toshihiro Takizawa and John M. Robinson).


26 Proteomics & the Placenta (Gregory E. Rice).


27 Stable Isotope Methodologies for the Study of Transport and
Metabolism In Vivo (Irene Cetin and Chiara Mandò).


Part 5: Medical diseases and complications.


28 The Role of the Placenta in Autoimmune Disease and Early
Pregnancy Loss (Daniel L Jackson and Danny J. Schust).


29 The Placenta in Preterm Prelabor Rupture of Membranes and
Preterm Labor (Chong Jai Kim, Roberto Romero and Sonia S.
Hassan).


30 Diabetes and the Placenta (Ursula Hiden, Julia Froehlich
and Gernot Desoye).


31 Placental Origins of Intrauterine Growth Restriction (Ian
P. Crocker).


32 The Placenta in Preeclampsia (Fiona Lyall).


33 Thrombophilia and the Placenta (Christina S. Han and
Michael J. Paidas).


34 Infections in the Placenta (Samuel Parry).


35 Aneuploidy and Polyploidy (Dan Diego-Alvarez and Wendy P.
Robinson).


36 Gestational Trophoblastic Disease and Placental Tumors
(Katja Gwin and Aliya N. Husain).


37 Multiple Gestation and Twin-Twin Transfusion syndrome
(Ramesha Papanna and Kenneth Moise).


38 Previa and Abruption (Helen H. Kay).


39 The Placenta as a Functional Barrier to Fetal Drug Exposure
(Tatiana N. Nanovskaya, Gary D. V. Hankins and Mahmoud S.
Ahmed).


40 Placental Drug Transport (Clifford W. Mason and Carl P.
Weiner).


Part 6: Future clinical applications.


41 Umbilical Cord Blood Banking (Gilad A. Gross, Thinh Nguyen
and Laura Meints).


42 Stem Cells from the Placenta (Thaddeus G. Golos).


43 Fetal DNA, RNA and prenatal diagnosis (Olav Lapaire and
Wolfgang Holzgreve).

About the Author

Helen Kay, MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA D. Michael Nelson, MD, PhD, Department of Obstetrics andGynecology, Washington University School of Medicine,St. Louis, MO, USA Yuping Wang, MD, PhD, Departments of Obstetrics andGynecology, and Molecular and Cellular Physiology, LouisianaState University Health Sciences Center Shreveport,Shreveport, LA, USA

Reviews

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