Inflammatory responses in the placenta upon SARS-CoV-2 infection late in pregnancy

Summary: The effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection on placental function is not well understood. Analysis of placentas from women who tested positive at delivery showed SARS-CoV-2 genomic and subgenomic RNA in 22 out of 52 placentas. Placentas from two mothers with symptomatic COVID-19 whose pregnancies re...

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Main Authors: Lissenya B. Argueta, Lauretta A. Lacko, Yaron Bram, Takuya Tada, Lucia Carrau, André Figueiredo Rendeiro, Tuo Zhang, Skyler Uhl, Brienne C. Lubor, Vasuretha Chandar, Cristianel Gil, Wei Zhang, Brittany J. Dodson, Jeroen Bastiaans, Malavika Prabhu, Sean Houghton, David Redmond, Christine M. Salvatore, Yawei J. Yang, Olivier Elemento, Rebecca N. Baergen, Benjamin R. tenOever, Nathaniel R. Landau, Shuibing Chen, Robert E. Schwartz, Heidi Stuhlmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-05-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422200493X