Scientifically, it is known that a retained placenta in a cow should be removed between 48 and 72 hours from calving to allow ...

It is a multi-stage disease with the maldevelopment and/or dysfunction of distinct trophoblast lineages of the placenta at the center of the disease. Villous and extravillous trophoblast (EVT) ...

In the human, the placenta is the predominant route of IgG transfer in the maternal-to-fetal direction; the immune protection provided by maternal antibodies is essential for newborns during the ...

Normally the expulsion occurs within eight hours after delivery of the calf. The placenta is retained when the cotyledons on the placenta do not detach from the caruncles on the uterus during ...

The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2007;41(7):1174-1180. Well-designed studies using the in vitro human placental cotyledon model, as well as in vivo studies, have demonstrated that while metformin ...

Eating one's placenta, or placentophagy, isn’t necessarily a new trend, but it’s one that’s gained more notoriety in recent years. While most people transform their placenta into pill-form ...

Reporting in Nature, Swingle et al. use a DNA barcoding approach to identify an LNP formulation that delivers therapeutic mRNA to the placenta and alleviates hypertension in mouse models of pre ...

This study provides insight into within-litter competition for use in future genetic evaluation. Triplets have less placental efficiency, defined as fetal weight per gram of placenta, than twins or ...