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TY - JOUR
T1 - Morphogenesis of Human Placental Chorionic Villi
T2 - Cytoskeletal, Syncytioskeletal and Extracellular Matrix Proteins
AU - OCKLEFORD, C D
AU - WAKELY, J
AU - BADLEY, R A
PY - 1981/7/14
Y1 - 1981/7/14
N2 - Immunocytochemical and ultrastructural methods were used to investigate the distribution of a family of structural proteins in the human placenta near term. These reveal the distribution of cytoskeletal and `syncytioskeletal' components that may account for some of the more obvious micromorphological features of placental structure. In the syncytiotrophoblast a potentially supporting structure `the syncytioskeletal layer' is described. It is an apparently continuous and complex polymeric network covering the villous tree, a surface of the order of 10 m$^{2}$ in area in the full term placenta (Aherne & Dunnill 1966). It is suggested that this layer plays a part in morphogenesis of the villous tree.
AB - Immunocytochemical and ultrastructural methods were used to investigate the distribution of a family of structural proteins in the human placenta near term. These reveal the distribution of cytoskeletal and `syncytioskeletal' components that may account for some of the more obvious micromorphological features of placental structure. In the syncytiotrophoblast a potentially supporting structure `the syncytioskeletal layer' is described. It is an apparently continuous and complex polymeric network covering the villous tree, a surface of the order of 10 m$^{2}$ in area in the full term placenta (Aherne & Dunnill 1966). It is suggested that this layer plays a part in morphogenesis of the villous tree.
U2 - 10.1098/rspb.1981.0041
DO - 10.1098/rspb.1981.0041
M3 - Journal article
VL - 212
SP - 305
EP - 316
JO - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
JF - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
SN - 0962-8452
IS - 1188
ER -