%0 Journal Article
%T Villous Tree Model with Active Contractions for Estimating Blood Flow Conditions in the Human Placenta
%A Graham J. Burton
%A Michelle L. Oyen
%A Yoko Kato
%J Archive of "The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal".
%D 2017
%R 10.2174/1874120701711010036
%X In the human placenta, maternal and fetal bloods exchange substances through the surface of the villous trees: the fetal blood circulates in the villous trees, around which the maternal blood circulates. The blood flows directly influence fetal growth. Stem villi, the main supports of the villous tree, have contractile cells along the axes, whose contractions are expected to influence the blood circulations in the placenta. The displacement is neither measurable nor predictable while non-invasive measurements such as umbilical Doppler waveforms are helpful to predict the histological changes of the villous trees and vascularization in the placenta
%K Human placenta
%K Villous tree
%K Stem villi
%K Contraction
%K Placental function
%K Blood flow
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5418916/