IFPA Meeting 2013 Workshop Report I: diabetes in pregnancy, maternal dyslipidemia in pregnancy, oxygen in placental development, stem cells and pregnancy pathology

M H Abumaree; S Alahari; C Albrecht; I L M H Aye; S Bainbridge; S Chauvin; V L Clifton; G Desoye; L Ermini; D Giuffrida; C H Graham; Q-T Huang; B Kalionis; S Lager; L Leach; Y Li; M L Litvack; A M Nuzzo; M Moretto-Zita; P O'Tierney-Ginn; T Powell; A Rolfo; C Salomon; A Serov; M Westwood; H W Yung; G E Lash

doi:10.1016/j.placenta.2013.11.010

IFPA Meeting 2013 Workshop Report I: diabetes in pregnancy, maternal dyslipidemia in pregnancy, oxygen in placental development, stem cells and pregnancy pathology

Placenta. 2014 Feb:35 Suppl:S4-9. doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2013.11.010. Epub 2013 Dec 1.

Authors

M H Abumaree¹, S Alahari², C Albrecht³, I L M H Aye⁴, S Bainbridge⁵, S Chauvin², V L Clifton⁶, G Desoye⁷, L Ermini⁸, D Giuffrida⁹, C H Graham¹⁰, Q-T Huang¹¹, B Kalionis¹², S Lager⁴, L Leach¹³, Y Li¹⁴, M L Litvack⁸, A M Nuzzo⁹, M Moretto-Zita¹⁵, P O'Tierney-Ginn¹⁶, T Powell⁴, A Rolfo⁹, C Salomon¹⁷, A Serov¹⁸, M Westwood¹⁹, H W Yung²⁰, G E Lash²¹

Affiliations

¹ King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences/King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
² Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and Swiss National Center of Competence in Research, NCCR-TransCure, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁴ Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA.
⁵ Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Robinson Institute, Department of Paediatrics and Reproductive Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
⁷ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
⁸ Department of Physiology and Experimental Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁹ Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
¹⁰ Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
¹¹ Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
¹² Department of Perinatal Medicine, Pregnancy Research Centre and University of Melbourne, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal Women's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
¹³ School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
¹⁴ Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
¹⁵ Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
¹⁶ Centre for Reproductive Health, MetroHealth Medical Centre at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
¹⁷ University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, Herston, Queensland, Australia.
¹⁸ Laboratoire PMC, CNRS - École Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France.
¹⁹ Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; St Mary's Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
²⁰ Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
²¹ Reproductive and Vascular Biology Group, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Electronic address: gendie.lash@ncl.ac.uk.

PMID: 24321782
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2013.11.010

Abstract

Workshops are an important part of the IFPA annual meeting as they allow for discussion of specialized topics. At IFPA meeting 2013 there were twelve themed workshops, four of which are summarized in this report. These workshops related to various aspects of placental biology but collectively covered areas of pregnancy pathologies and placental metabolism: 1) diabetes in pregnancy; 2) lipids, fatty acids and the placenta; 3) oxygen in placental development and pathologies; 4) stem cells and pathologies.

Keywords: Diabetes; Fatty acids; Fetal growth restriction; Lipids; Oxygen; Placental stem cells; Pre-eclampsia.

Publication types

Congress

MeSH terms

Animals
Diabetes, Gestational / metabolism*
Dyslipidemias / physiopathology*
Female
Fetal Development
Humans
Oxygen / physiology*
Placentation*
Pregnancy
Signal Transduction
Stem Cells / physiology

Substances

Oxygen

Grants and funding

R00 HD062841/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States