Maternal Weight Gain

Maternal weight gain is the increase in a woman’s body weight during pregnancy, reflecting changes in the fetus, placenta, amniotic fluid, maternal tissues, and energy stores. It results from coordinated physiological adaptations that support fetal growth, expand blood volume, enlarge the uterus and breasts, and prepare the body for lactation, while the amount and pattern of gain vary with prepregnancy body mass index, gestational age, and overall health. Monitoring maternal weight gain helps clinicians assess nutritional status and pregnancy progression, identify unusually low or excessive gain, and guide counseling intended to reduce risks for complications affecting both mother and infant.

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Here, we describe a protocol for generating maternal mutant that couples a stable zpc:cas9 knock-in line with Tol2-mediated delivery of sgRNA expression cassettes.

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Gain

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2024

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2015

Described herein is a protocol to isolate and analyze the infiltrating leukocytes of tissues at the maternal-fetal interface (uterus, decidua, and placenta) of mice. This protocol maintains the integrity of most cell surface markers and yields enough viable cells for downstream applications including flow cytometry analysis.

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