The placenta is a temporary organ that undergoes a natural process of aging, known as senescence.
It is programmed to age and change over its nine-month lifespan. This process progresses throughout pregnancy.
Forming partly from the fertilized egg and the embryo’s cells, and partly from the mother’s uterine lining, this joint effort is the only organ built by two individuals, designed to connect them.
Working together to sustain a new life. It develops only after conception and functions like multiple organs combined.
The placenta acts like the fetus’s lungs, exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide. It works like the kidneys, removing waste products.
It functions like the liver, processing nutrients.
And it even acts as an endocrine gland, producing several hormones such as hCG, progesterone, estrogens, and hPL — all essential for the fetus to grow and develop.
The placental membrane is where the exchange of substances happens between the mother and the fetus.
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