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Quantitative changes of extravillous trophoblast cells in heavy smoker mothers compared with healthy controls.
Reproduction, fertility, and development - 1 Jan 2018
Heidari Zahra, Mahmoudzadeh-Sagheb Hamidreza, Sheibak Nadia
Abstract excerpt
Maternal smoking during pregnancy can induce structural and functional changes in the placenta. Placentas from heavy smoker (>20 cigarettes per day) mothers and non-smoker healthy controls (n=10 in each group) were enrolled in the present case-control study. Sample selection and sectioning were performed by systematic uniform random sampling (SURS). Selected sections were stained using Masson's trichrome to...
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