 Fetus
"Fetus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The unborn young of a viviparous mammal, in the postembryonic period, after the major structures have been outlined. In humans, the unborn young from the end of the eighth week after CONCEPTION until BIRTH, as distinguished from the earlier EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN.
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D005333
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A16.378
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| Concept/Terms |
Fetal Structures- Fetal Structures
- Fetal Structure
- Structure, Fetal
- Structures, Fetal
Fetal Tissue- Fetal Tissue
- Fetal Tissues
- Tissue, Fetal
- Tissues, Fetal
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fetus" by people in this website by year, and whether "Fetus" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1995 | 7 | 4 | 11 | | 1996 | 2 | 6 | 8 | | 1997 | 7 | 7 | 14 | | 1998 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 1999 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2000 | 8 | 8 | 16 | | 2001 | 1 | 6 | 7 | | 2002 | 2 | 8 | 10 | | 2003 | 5 | 12 | 17 | | 2004 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2005 | 4 | 8 | 12 | | 2006 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2007 | 1 | 8 | 9 | | 2008 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2009 | 5 | 4 | 9 | | 2010 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2011 | 3 | 8 | 11 | | 2012 | 4 | 9 | 13 | | 2013 | 7 | 7 | 14 | | 2014 | 8 | 5 | 13 | | 2015 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2016 | 5 | 8 | 13 | | 2017 | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 2018 | 6 | 11 | 17 | | 2019 | 10 | 6 | 16 | | 2020 | 11 | 13 | 24 | | 2021 | 7 | 18 | 25 | | 2022 | 4 | 14 | 18 | | 2023 | 2 | 19 | 21 | | 2024 | 2 | 13 | 15 | | 2025 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fetus" by people in Profiles.
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Moore LG, Wesolowski SR, Lorca RA, Julian CG. AMPK: Accumulating Evidence in Support of its role in Dual Regulation of Vascular Function and Metabolism During Human Pregnancy. Acta Physiol (Oxf). 2025 Sep; 241(9):e70093.
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Michelsen TM, Sajjad MU, Haugen G, Moore L, Julian CG, Sørbye IK, Henriksen T. Maternal body mass index is related to fetal uptake of glucose and oxygen via fetal insulin resistance rather than fetal glucose levels. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2025 Aug 21; 380(1933):20240178.
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Kyllo HM, Wesolowski SR. Fetal nutrient flux and oxidative metabolism during hypoxia: adaptive responses to defend fetal growth. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2025 Aug 21; 380(1933):20240176.
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Hernández MH, Santos ED, Rodriguez Y, Ferchaud-Roucher V, Rousseau-Ralliard D, Frambourg A, Berveiller P, Vialard F, Couturier-Tarrade A, Dieudonne MN. Sex-specific differences in the influence of maternal obesity on the oxidative and inflammatory status in the maternal-placental-fetal unit: new insights into the placental sphingolipid profile. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2025 Oct 01; 608:112640.
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D'Hondt A, Shelmerdine S, Aertsen M, Cassart M, Miller E, Klein W, Goergen S, Victoria T, Blondiaux E, Alison M, Abel C, Taranath A, Rebollo Polo M, Meyers ML, Gomez-Chiari M, Rao P, van Rijn RR, Arthurs O. Fetal and neonatal postmortem magnetic resonance imaging clinical protocol: recommendations from the European society of paediatric radiology postmortem task force. Pediatr Radiol. 2025 Sep; 55(10):2047-2053.
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McElwee ER, Hatchell D, Alshareef M, Mallah K, Hall H, Robinson H, Eskandari R, Chang E, Sullivan S, Tomlinson S. Complement Modulation Mitigates Inflammation-Mediated Preterm Birth and Fetal Neural Inflammation. Cells. 2025 Jul 08; 14(14).
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Tanner AR, Cilvik SN, Nguyen MA, Dobrinskikh E, Anthony RV, Wesolowski SR, Rozance PJ. A Two-Hour Fetal Glucagon Infusion Stimulates Hepatic Catabolism of Amino Acids in Fetal Sheep. Int J Mol Sci. 2025 Feb 22; 26(5).
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Kumar AR, Benson LS, Wymore EM, Phipers JE, Dempsey JC, Cort LA, Unadkat JD. Quantification and prediction of human fetal (-)-?9-tetrahydrocannabinol/(±)-11-OH-?9-tetrahydrocannabinol exposure during pregnancy to inform fetal cannabis toxicity. Nat Commun. 2025 Jan 18; 16(1):824.
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Tompkins RM, Fujiwara T, Schrauben EM, Browne LP, van Schuppen J, Clur SA, Friesen RM, Englund EK, Barker AJ, van Ooij P. Third trimester fetal 4D flow MRI with motion correction. Magn Reson Med. 2025 May; 93(5):1969-1983.
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White A, Stremming J, Wesolowski SR, Al-Juboori SI, Dobrinskikh E, Limesand SW, Brown LD, Rozance PJ. IGF-1 LR3 does not promote growth in late-gestation growth-restricted fetal sheep. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2025 Jan 01; 328(1):E116-E125.
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