The Placenta - From Development to Disease

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 Mando ). 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 ).