MRI Showing Contraction in Placenta (IMAGE)

University of Nottingham

MRI Showing Contraction in Placenta

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Example of the utero-placental pump, left the relaxed placenta before the contraction, right the contracted placenta (the placenta is the area with the red line around it): it's clear how the placenta is smaller during a contraction, pushing out the maternal blood.

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Dr Nelle Dellschaft, University of Nottingham

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