Prenatal exposure to air pollution causes chromosomal damage
...s, tobacco smoke, combustion etc can penetrate the placenta enough to harm the chromosome of the fetus. The research conducted by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, US, had studied 60 newborns of the New York City to assess the damage caused by the pollution. The portable air monitors the ...Pregnancy hormone to prevent breast cancer
...reast cancer in rats. The hormone that is found in placenta promotes full maturity of the breast cells, a process called differentiation. This hormone is successfully seen fending the breast cells against the cancerous changes that may be affected later. Researchers feel that this hormone hCG may be suited f...Risk of preeclampsia in pregnant mothers may be inherited
...hat leads to preeclampsia. This is because how the placenta develops in the early stages of pregnancy is what leads to the diseases of preeclampsia and others. The scientists hope that one single blood test will be able to predict the gene that gives a woman with the STOX1 genotype a fift percent chance of h...More Importance To Be Given To Prenatal Nutrition
...enatal malnourishment. Abnormal development of the placenta and its blood vessels and high blood pressure, which damages vessels can also lead to malnourishment in some cases problems can also result from intrauterine growth restriction. A series of experiments were conducted by researchers beginning with pr...Pollution can cause damage to fetus in womb
...lic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) that can penetrate placenta to affect the fetus. Some common such air pollutan.... The results show that the PAH which enters the placenta of the fetus are carcinogenic in nature and causes a change in the DNA structure of the fetus, thus ...Unborn Found To Be More Sensitive to Pollution
...o fetuses than their mothers, despite the fact the placenta filters out most of the pollutants. These researchers wondered if the same was true in humans. Researchers collected blood samples from 265 mothers and their newborn babies looking for biomarkers indicating exposure to proteins known as carcinogen-D...Anxiety likely to affect the foetus
...vels. For example cortisol,a hormone can cross the placenta and it may well affect the development of the baby's brain in the womb," she further added that every pregnant woman should take time to rest and relax.......ave more of an impact in the early stages when the placenta is being formed, said Dr Glover....