Sferruzzi-Perri AN

ORCID: 0000-0002-4931-4233 · 2 papers in corpus · active 2019-2020
2020
Placenta ·doi:10.1016/j.placenta.2020.03.014

In mice, the labyrinth zone of the placenta exchanges nutrients and gases between mother and fetus. This placental zone is complex in structure and defects in its morphogenesis can compromise substrate exchange and thus, fetal growth and vi…

2019
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ·doi:10.1073/pnas.1902688116

Genetic engineering of the mouse genome identified many genes that are essential for embryogenesis. Remarkably, the prevalence of concomitant placental defects in embryonic lethal mutants is highly underestimated and indicates the importanc…