The umbilical cord delivers vital nutrients from your body to your baby, and ferries away the waste your baby produces. It ...

The umbilical cord is cut at birth. What purpose does it serve? When and how is it cut? Is it true that the father can do it? Here are the answers to your questions about the umbilical cord. What is ...

During prenatal development, the umbilical cord is physiologically and genetically part of the fetus and, (in humans), normally contains two arteries (the umbilical arteries) and one vein (the ...

Wait A Few Minutes Before Clamping The Umbilical Cord, Researchers Suggest Date: May 9, 2007 ... there were no differences in the viscosity or the melatonin in the umbilical artery and vein, ...

For much of pregnancy, the umbilical cord is the lifeline of a fetus, tethering it to the placenta. Snaking through the nearly 2-feet-long cord, there’s a vein ferrying nutrients and oxygen from ...

Article:" Viscoelastic evaluation of fetal umbilical vein for reconstruction of middle cerebral artery," by Dongyuan Li1, Donghui Xu1, Peng Li2, Jun Wei1, Kun Yang3, Conghai Zhao1 (1 Department of ...

Usually, the umbilical venous and arterial pH values are approximately equally deranged. 6 The hallmark of occlusion of the umbilical vein is widened differences between the vein and artery pH and ...

Table 2 Immunohistochemical detection of VCAM-1 on endothelium of umbilical cord artery and vein. Full size table.

The umbilical cord consists of a vein and two arteries, which are surrounded by a gelatinous substance called Wharton’s jelly. A membrane, called the amnion, holds the whole thing together.