Editorial: Uteroplacental mingling: who's kissing uNK?

Whos In the Picture

The context in which a name appears in a caption provides powerful cues as to who is depicted in the associated image. We obtain 44,773 face images, using a face detector, from approximately half a million captioned news images and automatically link names, obtained using a named entity recognizer, with these faces. A simple clustering method can produce fair results. We improve these results s...

Uteroplacental vasculature.

Pregnancy requires physiological adaptations in every bodily system, not the least important being those involving the cardiovascular system. Associated with an increased plasma volume and cardiac output there are probably changes in the walls of the blood vessels themselves that so far have not been defined (Robertson and Manning, 1974). Suggestive evidence for this is to be found in the remar...

Cell mingling during mammalian embryogenesis.

Chromosomal Organization: Mingling with the Neighbors

C hromosomes, the packaged DNA carriers of heredity and instructions for proper cell functioning, undergo dramatic morphological transformations during the cell-division cycle. In metaphase, which includes the alignment of chromosomes before their separation between the two daughter cells, the 46 chromosomes in a human cell are condensed to such a degree that they can be observed by light micro...

Establishment of uteroplacental circulation.

Haemochorial placentation, as it occurs in the human and other primate and rodent species, requires a connection of the placenta with supplying maternal (uteroplacental) arteries. Very little is known of the initial stages but endovascular trophoblast invasion seems to represent an essential element for further elaboration of an adequate uteroplacental circulation. In the human, endovascular tr...