ULTRASTRUCTURE OF HUMAN PLACENTA AT TERM - OBSERVATIONS ON PLACENTAS FROM NEWBORN CHILDREN OF SMOKING AND NON-SMOKING MOTHERS
ULTRASTRUCTURE OF HUMAN PLACENTA AT TERM - OBSERVATIONS ON PLACENTAS FROM NEWBORN CHILDREN OF SMOKING AND NON-SMOKING MOTHERS
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DOI:
10.3109/00016347709158353
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
ASMUSSEN, I
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作者:
ASMUSSEN, I
The placenta was chosen as a possible model for evaluating the vascular injury and tissue injury provoked by tobacco smoking in the human body. Full term placentas from 4 smokers and 3 non-smokers were studied in the transmission electron microscope. Pronounced changes were found in the group of smokers. The characteristic findings were broadening of the basement membrane of the placental villus, increase in collagen content of the villus, decrease in vascularization and initimal changes in the villous capillaries and arterioles, with pronounced intimal edema. Since similar changes were previously reported from human umbilical arteries, and since these changes were also induced in animal arteries by exposure to CO or perfusion with nicotine, the concept that tobacco smoking is harmful to the human vascular system and tissues was supported.