The phrase
"human placental" refers to something that is related to or involves the placenta, which is an organ that develops in the womb during pregnancy.
Full definition
Additionally, sex differences were recently also described in the transcriptome
of human placental cells, demonstrating an influence of fetal sex on placental gene expression in a cell - type dependent manner (186).
Human placental cell line Jeg - 3 can be readily infected by a circulating strain of Zika virus (left panel) and completely protected by treatment with nanchangmycin (right panel).
Hormones like
Human Placental Lactogen (HPL), Progesterone, Estrogen, Oxytocin and Relaxin which are important for both you and your baby during pregnancy are produced by the placenta.
The effect of drugs as specific DAO inhibitors and their capacity to induce histamine intolerance have been shown in various studies
with human placental DAO and in animal experiments (10, 40, 97, 98).
At 15 weeks, another hormone that affects the mother's blood glucose level increases production:
human placental growth hormone.
Rather than just being a passive bridge between you and your baby, the placenta also produces hormones and signaling molecules, such
as human placental lactogen (HPL), relaxin, oxytocin, progesterone and estrogen, which are necessary for both of you during pregnancy.
«You'd still have to ration the therapy,» cautions Robert Hariri, chief researcher at Anthrogenesis in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey, which announced this year that it had
morphed human placental stem cells into nerve, blood, cartilage, skin, and muscle cells.
By searching the scientific literature, Munn found that the macrophages» tryptophan - eating enzyme, called IDO or indoleamine 2,3 - dioxygenase, was also produced in large quantities
by human placental tissue.
This is the first study to examine the effects of prenatal exposure to methamphetamine, marijuana, and cigarette smoking
on human placental development.
Studies on aromatase inhibition with 4 - androstene -3,6,17-trione: its 3 beta - reduction and time - dependent irreversible binding to aromatase with
human placental microsomes.
West Nile virus and Powassan virus also replicated, or multiplied, more efficiently than the alphaviruses in lab samples
of human placental tissue.
As a result, the cells fused to form syncytiotrophoblasts, and thus more closely resemble the primary cells lining the outermost layer of the tree - like or villous structure of
the human placental tissue.
Dr. Coyne's team took a different approach: They cultured
a human placental trophoblast cell line in a microgravity bioreactor system developed by NASA.
When exposed to interferon - β, which isn't typically present during a healthy pregnancy,
human placental tissue developed abnormal knot structures.
Yockey et al. have studied the role of placental interferon signaling in the context of Zika virus infection using mouse models and
human placental tissue.
The human placental sexome differs between trophoblast epithelium and villous vessel endothelium