10.0 Learning aims, what you should already know, introduction, delving deeper Learning aims What you should already know Delving deeper Introduction
10.1 Early development and implantation Early development Implantation Introduction The trophoblast The embryoblast
10.2 Development of the placental villi Anatomy of the placenta The three villus types Introduction The cytotrophoblast layer Connections between maternal and fetal tissues Placental tissue structure Development of the placenta The decidua Development of the villi
10.3 Placental blood circulation Introduction Fetal and maternal blood circulation systems The fetal circulation system The maternal circulation system The placental barrier
10.4 The physiology of the placenta: Role of the placenta in the feto-maternal exchange processes Mechanisms of the feto-maternal exchanges Breathing function Nutritive and excretory functions Placenta and the immunological barrier Protein transfer Protective function Endocrinal function
10.5 Fetal membranes, placenta and pregnancies with twins Introduction Dizygotic twins Monozygotic twins Incomplete separation of the embryonic axes
10.6 The umbilical cord Development of the umbilical cord Role and abnormalities of the umbilical cord
10.7 The various placenta types Introduction Outer form Feto-maternal interdigitation Feto-maternal separation layers
10.9 Pathologies of the placenta Introduction Implantation and form anomalies Toxemia of pregnancy (gestosis) Fetal erythroblastosis (morbus haemolyticus fetalis) Inflammation of the placenta Hydatid mole Choriocarcinoma
