STRUCTURAL-CHANGES IN PLACENTAL BARRIER OF SMOKING MOTHER - A QUANTITATIVE AND ULTRASTRUCTURAL-STUDY

DEMIR R., DEMIR A., YINANC M.

PATHOLOGY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, vol.190, no.7, pp.656-667, 1994 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 190 Issue: 7
  • Publication Date: 1994
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/s0344-0338(11)80744-2
  • Journal Name: PATHOLOGY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.656-667
  • Keywords: HUMAN PLACENTA, SMOKING, ULTRASTRUCTURE, PREGNANCY, PLACENTAL VILLI, NECROSIS, CIGARETTE-SMOKING, PERINATAL-MORTALITY, CHORIONIC VILLI, BIRTH-WEIGHT, HOFBAUER CELLS, PREGNANCY, ULTRASTRUCTURE, SMOKERS, ACID
  • Akdeniz University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Human placental villi from all three trimesters of pregnancy in 90 non-smoking pregnants and 244 cigarette smoking pregnants, were investigated. In smokers, the numbers of syncytial knots and cytotrophoblastic cells increased, depending on the cigarettes per day, syncytial buds and vasculo-syncytial membranes decreased as the pregnancy proceeded. The mean birth weight and placental weight in smokers were decreased, depending on the cigarettes per day at the third trimester.