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TY - JOUR
T1 - Healthy and pre-eclamptic placental basal plate lining cells
T2 - quantitative comparisons based on confocal laser scanning microscopy
AU - Smith, R K
AU - Ockleford, C D
AU - Byrne, S
AU - Bosio, P
AU - Sanders, R
N1 - RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Allied Health Professions and Studies
PY - 2004/5/1
Y1 - 2004/5/1
N2 - Immunocytochemical confocal laser scanning microscope images of the monolayer of cells lining the intervillus space at the basal plate of term placentae were analysed using stereology. Immunoreactively-distinct regions of this mosaic layer were measured. In basal plate from healthy pregnancies, trophoblast epithelium occupied 18.91% of the surface area and endothelium 60.81%. In pre-eclampsia the equivalent areas were 15.57% and 67.63%. Acellular fibrinoid covers the remaining area and this component decreases in area in pre-eclampsia. The statistically significant increase in the cellular endothelial compartment may be relevant to the hypertensive pathology of pre-eclampsia as endothelial signalling plays a major role in regulation of blood pressure. (C) 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
AB - Immunocytochemical confocal laser scanning microscope images of the monolayer of cells lining the intervillus space at the basal plate of term placentae were analysed using stereology. Immunoreactively-distinct regions of this mosaic layer were measured. In basal plate from healthy pregnancies, trophoblast epithelium occupied 18.91% of the surface area and endothelium 60.81%. In pre-eclampsia the equivalent areas were 15.57% and 67.63%. Acellular fibrinoid covers the remaining area and this component decreases in area in pre-eclampsia. The statistically significant increase in the cellular endothelial compartment may be relevant to the hypertensive pathology of pre-eclampsia as endothelial signalling plays a major role in regulation of blood pressure. (C) 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
KW - pre-eclampsia • basal plate • intervillus space • caveolin-1 • endothelial cells • trophoblast invasion • cytokeratin expression • placental development
U2 - 10.1002/jemt.20047
DO - 10.1002/jemt.20047
M3 - Journal article
VL - 64
SP - 54
EP - 62
JO - Microscopy Research and Technique
JF - Microscopy Research and Technique
SN - 1059-910X
IS - 1
ER -