Caracterização da matriz extracelular placentária do camundongo Mus musculus através da microscopia de luz

Abstract

The placenta is an important structure for mammals and is responsible for making gas, excreta and metabolite exchanges between the fetus and the mother. Humans and rodents share the same placental type, a hemochorial discoid placenta. Advances in the field of tissue bioengineering have been made using the extracellular matrix of the human placenta as scaffolds, it is believed that just like the human placenta the mouse placenta can also be used as biological material for grafting and tissue recovery. This research aims to make a morphological analysis of the extracellular matrix of the mouse placenta in order to better understand this structure and its function.