Normal Fetal Circulation The heart and its blood vessels start to develop at the end of the third week of conception and the heart begins to beat in the fourth week. The first seven weeks are ...

Preeclampsia is associated with oxidative stress in maternal circulation. The purpose of this study was to explore oxidative stress and antioxidants in the fetal circulation in preeclampsia.

Researchers have identified many environmental exposures during fetal development that appear to set the stage for diseases decades later in life. They presented research at an international ...

Researchers have shown for the first time that the human fetal immune system arises from an entirely different source than the adult immune system, and is more likely to tolerate than fight ...

That conclusion, from Australian studies with sheep, supplies a physiologic basis for the link between fetal stress and adult hypertension that has been suggested by several studies of human ...

Kajantie recognizes that the effects of fetal environment on stress-related adult disease could have a fundamental impact on our understanding of these disorders and their prevention.

Both fetal and adult-derived OPCs were capable of remyelinating mouse axons, and neither generated heterotopic neurons. We also noted some marked differences between fetal and adult-derived OPCs.

Scientists in the Netherlands have found that the fetal brain has a "functional connectome" that overlaps with the adult brain by 61 percent.

Researchers have engineered mice that model the switch from fetal to adult hemoglobin, an important step towards curing genetic blood diseases such as sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia.

The switch from fetal γ-globin to adult β-globin is controlled by BCL11A. Genetic manipulation of BCL11A improves disease outcomes by turning γ-globin expression back on to compensate for ...