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Implantation And Formation Of Placenta 2 Flashcards

1
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Expands into to decidua
Outer pole faces the endometrial cavity
Inner pole forms the placenta

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Blastocyst

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Aka leafy chorion

Forms when chorionic villi proliferates upon contact with decidua basalis

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Chorionic frondosum

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As growth of embryonic and extra embryonic tissues continues

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Blood supply to the chorion facing the endometrial cavity is restricted

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Aka smooth chorion

Portion of chorion that becomes the avascular fetal membrane that touches the decidua parietalis

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Chorion laeve

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Chorion laeve composed of cytotrophoblast and fetal mesodermal mesenchyme that survives in

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Low oxygen atmosphere

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Chorion laeve

Separated from the amnion by exocoelomic cavity

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Near the end of 3rd month

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Important sites of molecular transfer and metabolic activity

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Chorion laeve

Amnion

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More translucent than the amnion

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Chorion laeve

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Paracrine arm of the fetal maternal communication system

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Amniochorion

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10
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Accumulate in decidua and are found in direct contact with trophoblast during first half of pregnancy

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Decidua natural killer cells

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Decidua natural killer cells

Lacks of cytotoxic functions and are able to

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Dampen inflammatory TH17 cells

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12
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Inhibits NK cells killing during pregnancy

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Decidual macrophages

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Decidua natural killer cells

It expresses both

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IL8 and

Interferon inducible protein 10

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Decidua natural killer cells

Produce proangigenic factors that promotes vascular growth in the decidua

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VEGF

Placental growth factor (PIGF)

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Secrete specific chemokines that attract the dNK cells to the maternal fetal interface

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Trophoblasts

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They form cell columns that extend from the endometrium to the inner third of the myometrial

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Extra villus trophoblast

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17
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Requires invasion of endometrium and spinal arteries

Process occurs under low oxygen conditions

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Hemochorial placental development

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18
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Secrete proteolytic enzymes that digest extracellular matrix and activate proteinase already present in the endometrium

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Invasive trophoblast

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Invasive trophoblast produce urokinase type plasminogen activator which converts plasminogen into

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Plasmin

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20
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Degrades matrix proteins and activates matrix metalloproteases

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Plasmin

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21
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Appears to be critical for human trophoblast invasion

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MMP-9

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22
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Ability to invade maternal tissue in early pregnancy compared with limited Invasiveness in late pregnancy is controlled by?

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Autocrine factors
Paracrine trophoblastic factors
Endometrial factors

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23
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Secrete insulin like growth factor 2 acts in an Autocrine manner

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Trophoblast

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24
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Secrete insulin like growth factor binding protein type 4 that block Autocrine loops

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Decidual cells

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25
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Degree of trophoblast invasion is controlled by

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Matrix degradation regulation

Factors that cause trophoblast migration

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26
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Low estradiol levels in the first trimester are critical

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For trophoblast invasion and

Remodeling of spinal arteries

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27
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Occurs in the first half of pregnancy

Important to utero placental blood flow

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Invasion of spiral arteries

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28
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Invasion of spinal arteries

Integral to pathological conditions such as

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Pre eclampsia
Fetal growth restriction
Preterm birth

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29
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Invasion of spinal arteries

Carried out by two populations of extravillous trophoblast

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Interstitial trophoblasts

Endo vascular trophoblast

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30
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Aggregate around the spiral arteries

Vessel preparation for endo vascular trophoblast invasion

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Interstitial trophoblast

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31
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Enter to the spiral arteries lumens

Initially from cellular plugs

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Endo vascular trophoblast

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Endo vascular trophoblast

Destroy vascular endothelium via

33
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Invasion by trophoblast involves only the decidual spiral arteries

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Not decidual veins

34
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2 stages of utero placental vessel development

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First wave - before 12 weeks, post fertilization

Second wave - between 12-16 weeks

35
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Maternal blood enters the

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Intervillous space

36
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Blood is propelled outside of the maternal vessels and sweep over and directly bathes the

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Syncytiotrophoblast

37
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Placental growth and maturation

Placental growth is more rapid than fetus

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First trimester

38
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Placental growth and maturation

Placenta and fetal weights are equal

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17 weeks AOG

39
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Placental growth and maturation

Placenta weight is 1/6 of fetal weight

40
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Placental growth and maturation

Slightly elevated convex areas from the maternal surface

41
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Placental growth and maturation

Grossly visible lobes

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Cotyledons

42
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Placental maturation

Abundant loose intercellular matrix in early pregnancy

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Villous stroma

43
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Placental maturation

Fetal macrophages
Nearly round with vesicular, often eccenteric nuclei and very granular or vacuolated cytoplasm

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Hofbauer cells

44
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Fetal circulation

Deoxygenated blood flows to the placenta through the

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Two umbilical arteries

45
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Fetal circulation

Umbilical vessels branch repeatedly beneath the

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Amnion and villi

46
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Fetal circulation

Oxygenated blood returns from the placenta bia

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Umbilical vein

47
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Fetal circulation

Umbilical vessels that traverse along the fetal surface of the placenta in the chorionic plate.
Responsive to vasoactive substances

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Placental surface

Chorionic vessels

48
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Fetal circulation

65% of placentas, chorionic arteries form a fine network supplying the

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Cotyledons

49
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Fetal circulation

Perforating branches of the surface arteries that pass through chorionic plate.

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Truncal arteries

50
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Each truncal arteries supplies

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One main stem villus

One cotyledon

51
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Maternal circulation

Maternal blood enters through the ________ and is driven high up toward the ________ by arterial pressure.

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Basal plate

Chorionic plate

52
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Maternal circulation

After bathing the external micro villus surface of chrorionic villi, maternal blood drains back through__________ in the _______ and enter _________.

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Venous orifice
Basal plate
Uterine veins

53
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Maternal circulation

Maternal blood transverse the placenta randomly without

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Performed channels

54
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Maternal circulation

Trophoblast invasion of the spiral arteries creates low resistance vessels that accomodate massive increase in

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Uterine perfusion during gestation.

55
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Maternal circulation

Uterine wall

Spiral arteries are

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Perpendicular to it

56
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Maternal circulation

Uterine wall

Veins are

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Parallel to it

57
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Maternal circulation

Arterial openings into the Intervillous space becomes gradually reduced by

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Cytotrophoblast invasion

58
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Maternal circulation

Uterine wall

How many spiral arteries entries into the Intervillous space at term

59
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Maternal circulation

Uterine wall

A prominent venous plexus separates the deciduas basalis from the myometrial and thus participates in providing a cleavage plane for placental separation

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After the 30th week

60
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Maternal circulation

Uterine wall

Increased during contraction

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Placental lenght
Thickness
Surface area

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Maternal circulation

Larger volume of blood is available for exchange even though the rate of flow is decreased.

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During contractions

62
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Maternal circulation

Principal factors regulating Intervillous space blood flow

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Arterial blood pressure
Intrauterine pressure
Uterine contraction pattern
Factors acting on arterial walls

63
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Immunological consideration of the Fetal Maternal Interface

With their inefficient cytotoxic abilities

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Decidual natural killer cells

64
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Immunological consideration of the Fetal Maternal Interface

Populate the deciduas

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Invasive trophoblast

65
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Immunological consideration of the Fetal Maternal Interface

Only fetal derived cells in direct contact with maternal tissues

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Trophoblast

66
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Immunological consideration of the Fetal Maternal Interface

Act to control the invasion of trophoblast, which have adapted to survive in an immunologically hostile environment

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Maternal NK cells

67
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Human analogue of the major histo compatibility complex

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Human leukocyte antigen

68
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MHC clas 1 and 2 antigens are absent

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Villus trophoblasts

69
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Express MHC class 1 molecules

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Invasive extravillous cytotrophoblast

70
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Trophoblast HLA class 1 expression

Encodes the major class I class Ia

71
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Trophoblast HLA class 1 expression

Encodes major class Ib

72
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Trophoblast HLA class 1 expression

Combined with unique expression of three specific HLA class I genes in extravillous cytotrophoblast

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Uterine decidual natural killer cells

73
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Trophoblast HLA class 1 expression

Expressed only in humans
Expression is restricted to extravillous cytotrophoblast adjacent to maternal tissues

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HLa-G antigen

74
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Trophoblast HLA class 1 expression

A solute major isoform which has increased levels during pregnancy

75
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Distinctive lymphocytes originate in bone marrow and belong to the natural killer cell

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Uterine Natural Killer Cells

76
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Uterine Natural Killer Cells

Infiltration is increased by

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Progesterone
Stromal cell production of IL15
Decidual prolactin

77
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Uterine Natural Killer Cells

Secrete large amounts of _________ means that they are in an activated state

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Granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor

78
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Distributed over the entire periphery of the chorionic membrane

Physio OB Midterm (6 decks)

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