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After fertilization, progesterone is necessary for the development and maintenance of the placenta.
Cord blood refers to the blood in the placenta and the part of the umbilical cord still attached to it after delivery.
They can make all of the cells in the body but not the placenta.
There even seemed to be some vestige of the placenta.
They threw away the placenta instead of giving it to the family to bury in a warm place.
The placenta is a thick blanket of blood vessels that nourishes the fertilized egg as it develops.
Such blastocysts can form only tissues, such as the placenta.
The placenta is unique among organs-critical to human life yet fleeting.
They get everything through placenta directly to their blood.
To understand the gene's function, scientists disabled the father's copy in the placenta of fetal mice.
He wrote scores of peer-review papers, was an expert on inherited metabolic diseases and the physiology of the placenta.
It encoded a protein made only by cells in the placenta.
Amniotic constriction bands are caused by damage to a part of the placenta called the amnion.
The biggest risk with a pregnant occupant is placenta uterine attachment.

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