Preeclampsia has known associations with insufficient placental perfusion. The large-conductance Ca 2+-activated K + (BKca) channels that have recently been found to play important roles in cellular ...

Background: Previous studies of maternal risk factors for abnormal placental growth have focused on placental weight and placental ratio as measures of placental growth. We sought to identify maternal ...

A maternal response to ascending bacterial infection often results in neutrophilic infiltration of the placental membranes and chorionic plate (chorioamnionitis). Conversely, acute vasculitis of ...