也許沒有一個器官像胎盤一樣被低估了。它是形成的第一個器官,但在生命的宏偉計劃中,它只和我們在一起很短的一段時間。它是一個迷人的器官,母親和胎兒的組成部分,以復雜的方式相互作用,以確保有效的營養交換,以滋養胎兒。對于這樣一個短命的器官,它對我們的健康有著深遠的、終身的影響。胎盤的缺陷與先天性心臟病、神經發育障礙、甚至代謝性疾病有關。考慮到它在促進胎兒生長方面所做的一切,它在出生后經常被隨意地扔進生物危害箱,這似乎是可笑的。
Figure 1. Immunofluorescence staining of normal (left) and trophoblast VE-cadherin knockout (right) mouse placentas for trophoblasts (Cytokeratin 8, magenta), endothelial cells (Endomucin, green), and red blood cells (TER119, red). Nuclei are stained with DAPI (blue). White arrowheads point to persistence endothelial cells in VE-cadherin knockout placentas that should not be there. Images in bottom row are correlated to white boxes in top row. Image used with permission from Sung et al. 2022, eLife
Figure 2. Endothelial cells (left) and trophoblast cells (right) were cultured in an ibidi µ-Dish 35 mm, high with a Culture-Insert 2 Well. Cells were allowed to migrate towards each other after removal of the insert prior to fixation, staining, and imaging. Cells were stained with an antibody against VE-cadherin (magenta), phalloidin for F-actin (cyan), and Cytokeratin 8 (yellow). Image used with permission from Derek Sung
我們對胎盤生物學的研究才剛剛起步。我希望下一代科學家將對婦女和生殖健康特別感興趣,因為這是一個科學和醫學領域,研究嚴重不足。我的夢想是有一天開一個自己的實驗室來研究胎盤的發育,這可能會為胎盤相關疾病的患者帶來新的治療方法。
Rana S, Lemoine E, Granger J, Karumanchi SA. Preeclampsia: Pathophysiology, Challenges, and Perspectives. Circ Res . 2019;124(7):1094-1112. doi:10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.313276
Sung DC, Chen X, Chen M, et al. VE-cadherin enables trophoblast endovascular invasion and spiral artery remodeling during placental development. Elife . 2022:1-17
Derek Sung — MD/PhD Student
Derek是賓夕法尼亞大學醫學院的醫學博士/博士生,從事發育和細胞生物學領域的工作。他的研究探討血管發育的機制,他在免疫熒光染色和共聚焦顯微鏡方面有專長。
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