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How does fetal hemoglobin enhance oxygen transfer across placenta?
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How does fetal hemoglobin enhance oxygen transfer across the placenta from mother to fetus?
I'm not quite sure how it would ENHANCE oxygen transfer, but hemoglobin itself is what is in blood and is responsible for the carrying of oxygen to different parts of the body. So the hemoglobin in a fetus would just be what is used to get the oxygen from the mothers blood into its blood.
How does the addiction of drugs from the mother get to the baby?
Drugs in the mother's bloodstream pass across the membrane of the placenta, and transfer to the unborn baby's blood by the umbilical cord, which connects the baby to the placenta.
What is area of gas exchange in fetus?
this is the function of the placenta, the mothers blood flows through capillaries that run very close to capillaries filled with the fetus' blood and the gases diffuse across due to the higher oxygen affinity of fetal haemoglobin.
What way does blood normally pass across the placenta?
blood does not pass across the placenta
Name 2 ways in which harmful substances can be passed onto the foetus?
To my knowledge there is only one way. Across the placenta and into the foetus. Everything taken into mothers body will pass across the placenta, around the system of the foetus and even returning waste back across the placenta through the magic of Osmosis.
What are the three harmful things that can pass across the placenta to the fetus?
alcahol canser and diseses
What substance is a waste that would normally diffuse across the placenta from the embryo to the mother?
glucose
Newborn infants gain most of their immunity from?
antibodies passed from the mother across the placenta
What is a level 4 placenta?
It is code for the position of the placenta in the womb. A placenta across the opening of the uterus and the baby is on top will need a cesearean section. a ultrasound will tell the doctor the positioning and will assist him/her in planning your delivery. good luck joymaker rn
Which energy transfer can involve energy transfer across vacuums?
Radiation.
Which forms of energy transfer can involve energy transfer across vacuums?
Radiation
What happens to a baby's blood as it passes through a placenta?
diffuse across the placental membranes into the mothers bloos.
