Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 12 , Pages 1058-1064 , December 2009

Centrality of the Umbilical Cord Insertion in a Human Placenta Influences the Placental Efficiency

  • M. Yampolsky

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, 40 St. George St, Toronto, Ontario M5S2E4, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 416 978 4637; fax: +1 416 978 4107.
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  • Carolyn M. Salafia

      Affiliations

    • Placental Analytics, LLC, Larchmont, NY, USA
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pediatrics, New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, USA
    • ,
  • O. Shlakhter

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S3G8, Canada
    • ,
  • D. Haas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, NY, NY 10019, USA
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  • B. Eucker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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  • J. Thorp

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

,Accepted 1 October 2009.

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☆ This work was partially supported by NSERC Discovery Grant (M. Yampolsky), by NARSAD Young Investigator Award (C. Salafia), by K23 MidCareer Development Award NIMH K23MH06785 (C. Salafia).

PII: S0143-4004(09)00307-5

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.10.001

Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 12 , Pages 1058-1064 , December 2009

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