During gestation, the placenta takes on the roles of many of the fetus’ developing organs and serves as a barrier between parent and child. Critical to this is the outermost layer of the organ, the syncytiotrophoblast (STB), a single, multinucleated cell that forms from repeated fusion events between mononucleated cytotrophoblasts (CTB). In addition to …
Single-nucleus RNA sequencing revealed specialized regions within the placenta’s multinucleated cell
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