One popular theory is that the position of your placenta might reveal your baby’s sex. It claims that an anterior placenta (attached to the front of the uterus) means you’re having a girl, while a ...

The chorion lies closest to the placenta. The chorionic sac encompasses the fetus and the amnion and is covered with chorionic villi until the 8th week. After the 8th week, these villi are ...

This valuable study investigates the immune system's role in pre-eclampsia. The authors map the immune cell landscape of the human placenta and find an increase in macrophages and Th17 cells in ...

In singleton pregnancies in developed countries, IUGR is usually the result of a deficit in placental transfer capacity due to placental dysfunction or maternal disease. These pathologies are not ...

Medically reviewed by Kumkum S. Patel, MD Intestinal villi (singular: villus)are tiny, finger-like projections that line the ...

Most are gestational choriocarcinomas, which usually occur in women with an epithelial origin of the placental chorionic villi and are associated with pregnancy. It mainly originates in the gonads ...

In normal pregnancy, cytotrophoblasts translocate from the chorionic villi into the uterus endometrium ... As a result, the spiral arteries attain adequately perfusion for the placenta. On the ...