DECIDE to sleep on your side: novel MRI approach unmasks phenomena relevant to stillbirth

Stacy Zamudio^{1

2}

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¹ Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
² Placenta Research Group, LLC, Maplewood, New Jersey, USA.

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Stacy Zamudio. J Physiol. 2023 Dec.

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. 2023 Dec;601(23):5135-5137.

doi: 10.1113/JP285251. Epub 2023 Nov 20.

Stacy Zamudio^{1

2}

¹ Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
² Placenta Research Group, LLC, Maplewood, New Jersey, USA.

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Keywords: fetal growth restriction; maternal-fetal physiology; oxygen transport; placenta.

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The effect of maternal position on placental blood flow and fetoplacental oxygenation in late gestation fetal growth restriction: a magnetic resonance imaging study.
Jani D, Clark A, Couper S, Thompson JMD, David AL, Melbourne A, Mirjalili A, Lydon AM, Stone PR. Jani D, et al. J Physiol. 2023 Dec;601(23):5391-5411. doi: 10.1113/JP284269. Epub 2023 Jul 19. J Physiol. 2023. PMID: 37467072

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