title: IFPA Meeting 2013 Workshop Report III: maternal placental immunological interactions, novel determinants of trophoblast cell fate, dual ex vivo perfusion of the human placenta.
abstract: Workshops are an important part of the IFPA annual meeting as they allow for discussion of specialised topics. At IFPA meeting 2013 there were twelve themed workshops, three of which are summarized in this report. These workshops related to various aspects of placental biology but collectively covered areas of placental function, cell turnover and immunology: 1) immunology; 2) novel determinants of placental cell fate; 3) dual perfusion of human placental tissue.
authors: College of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
authors: M H
authors: MH
authors: Abumaree
authors: Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, Institute of Human Development, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; St. Mary's Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Brownbill
authors: Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Burton
authors: Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Castillo
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Chamley
authors: Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
authors: B A
authors: BA
authors: Croy
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, CS Mott Centre for Human Growth and Development, Detroit, MI, USA.
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Drewlo
authors: Research Centre for Women's and Infants Health, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Dunk
authors: Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, Institute of Human Development, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; St. Mary's Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK.
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Girard
authors: Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Hansson
authors: Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, Institute of Human Development, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; St. Mary's Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK.
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Jones
authors: Lunenfeld-Tannebaum Research Institute and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Jurisicova
authors: Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Institute for Developmental Sciences, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Lewis
authors: Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Letarte
authors: Department of Pathology, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Parast
authors: Centre of Medical Parasitology, Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Infectious diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Pehrson
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, CS Mott Centre for Human Growth and Development, Detroit, MI, USA.
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Rappolee
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Insel Spital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Schneider
authors: Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Tannetta
authors: Department of Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Varmuza
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Wadsack
authors: St George's Hospital, University of London, London, UK.
authors: A E
authors: AE
authors: Wallace
authors: Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Zenerino
authors: Reproductive and Vascular Biology Group, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, 3rd Floor, William Leech Building, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK. Electronic address: gendie.lash@ncl.ac.uk.
authors: G E
authors: GE
authors: Lash
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010477:Perfusion / Q000379:methods; D010920:Placenta / Q000276:immunology*; D010929:Placentation; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000276:immunology*
keywords: Amino acid transport; Fetoplacental vascular tone; Immunology; Lipid transport; Malaria parasite; Placental cell fate; Placental dual perfusion; Syncytiotrophoblast microvesicles