Sentences with phrase «fetal blood»

It is a rare condition in which fetal blood vessels from the placenta or umbilical cord cross the entrance to the birth canal, beneath the baby.

«The early increased global placental profusion in pregnancies complicated by CHD may represent an attempt to correct for insufficient fetal blood flow.»

Sometimes during delivery, the baby swallows maternal - fetal blood into his stomach.

Because mother's blood and fetal blood don't actually mix much, the blood in the placenta and umbilical cord at birth belongs mainly to the fetus.

Research into a simple, accurate and low risk blood test that can detect fetal blood group, sex, and genetic conditions in unborn babies has been published in the international scientific journal, Clinical Chemistry.

Studies have found no effects on fetal blood flow or on fetal well - being during non-stress tests.

Other diagnostic tests may be offered through our Perinatal Diagnostic Centers, including amniocentesis, fetal blood sampling, or other special genetic testing.

Facial features have formed and his heart has a regular rhythm pumping fetal blood.

Similar procedures, such as fetal blood transfusions for anemia, are already offered.

The trophoblast cells branch out to form the labyrinth, and they are accompanied by fetal blood vessels.

Lead corresponding author for the study, Professor Neil Avent from Plymouth University School of Biomedical and Healthcare Sciences, explained: «Although fetal blood grouping and sexing using maternal blood has been done for over a decade, this research proves a much more accurate and sensitive method of detecting fetal DNA.

Early in pregnancy, these trophoblasts invade the uterine wall and later develop a complex network of tiny projections called villi, which contain fetal blood vessels.

The hormone reversed the abnormally high fetal blood sugar levels observed in the fetuses of obese mice, and it seemed to limit fetal nutrition by reducing levels of certain glucose and amino acid transport proteins at the placental barrier.

He points out that Sequenom had argued in court that other companies could continue to do fetal blood tests so long as they used a different method — and that there are other methods that could be used.

It brilliantly fills the market gap, allowing pregnant women to sleep in the prone position with adequate support to the growing abdomen in a manner that there is no pressure on the uterus, no disruption in the maternal and fetal blood flow, and no discomfort to the mother.

Newborns have more red blood cells than adults do at birth because before birth it's the placenta that's kind of breaking down the blood cells and when the baby's born they kind of have to do it on their own and so, there's this fetal blood cells that have to breakdown and be eliminated from the body.

However, due to the over-diagnosis of fetal distress and potential misinterpretation of the fetal heart rate, it is recommended to confirm a potential fetal distress diagnosis with a fetal blood acid base study.

That fetal blood holds all sorts of interesting — and potentially therapeutic — cells and molecules.

Instead of tossing it aside, some doctors, scientists and parents are choosing to bank this fetal blood — harvesting it from the baby's umbilical cord and placenta, freezing it and storing it away for later.

In particular, the branching of the trophoblast cells and the migration of the fetal blood vessels into the placenta were impaired.

Additional maternal and fetal blood was taken for measurement of haematocrit in duplicate.

Our goal is to create a microfluidic 3D cell culture system representing a «placenta - on - a-chip» in order to mimic the nutrient / waste transfer between maternal blood and fetal blood that occurs in the cotyledon section of the placenta, and to test and observe the effects of ethanol within the maternal bloodstream and compare it to a similar in vivo situation.

Persistent right aortic arch: a developmental abnormalitiy where one of the fetal blood vessels near the heart does not atrophy as it should.