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Isolation and Expansion of Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells Derived from Human Placenta Tissue
Published on: June 6, 2016
Scaling of the surface vasculature on the human placenta
A S Leonard1, J Lee1, D Schubert1
1The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
The networks of veins and arteries on the chorionic plate of the human placenta are analyzed in terms of Voronoi cells derived from these networks. Two groups of placentas from the United States are studied: a population cohort with no prescreening, and a cohort from newborns with an elevated risk of developing autistic spectrum disorder. Scaled distributions of the Voronoi cell areas in the two cohorts collapse onto a single distribution, indicating common mechanisms for the formation of the complete vasculatures, but which have different levels of activity in the two cohorts.
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