Research project

Lewis Blood flow (dys)regulation and transfer function in the human placenta: an integrated in silico and ex vivo approach to fetal growth restriction

Lead researchers:

Professor Rohan Lewis
Research funder:

Medical Research Council
Status:

Not active

Project overview

This project was an interdisciplinary collaboration with the university of Manchester which investigated how blood flow in the placenta affected oxygen and nutrient transfer. Babies whose placentas do not work effectively may be born to small which may lead to poor health.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Rohan Lewis PhD, FTPS

Prof of Placental&Integrative Physiology

Connect with Rohan

Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

A massively multi-scale approach to characterizing tissue architecture by synchrotron micro-CT applied to the human placenta

W. M. Tun, G. Poologasundarampillai, H. Bischof, G. Nye, O. N.F. King, M. Basham, Y. Tokudome, R. M. Lewis, E. D. Johnstone, P. Brownbill, M. Darrow & I. L. Chernyavsky, 2021, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18(179)

DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2021.0140

Type: article

Human placental oxygenation in late gestation: experimental and theoretical approaches

Gareth A. Nye, Emma Ingram, Edward D. Johnstone, Oliver E. Jensen, Henning Scheider, Rohan Lewis, Igor Chernyavsky & Paul Brownbill, 2018, The Journal of Physiology

DOI: 10.1113/JP275633

Type: review