At Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Momal Sharif, a postdoctoral subordinate successful the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology moving successful the laboratory of Dr. Ignatia Van den Veyver, studies rodent embryo improvement from aboriginal post-implantation to postnatal stages.
Iodine opposition micro-CT of an E (embryonic day) 11.5 rodent embryo wrong the yolk sac with placenta attached (Spatial Resolution of 3μm/voxel; Bruker Skyscanner, OIVM Core). Image courtesy of M Sharif/ Van den Veyver lab.
Dr. Momal SharifIn her studies, Sharif uses micro-computed tomography (micro-CT), a 3D imaging method that uses X-rays to spot wrong an object. Micro-CT is akin to infirmary CT scan imaging but connected a smaller standard with greatly accrued resolution.
“This method enables america to behaviour 3D investigation of the embryo on with other embryonic tissue,” Sharif said. “We purpose to qualify structural defects wrong the embryo, yolk sac and placenta utilizing this method.”
Dr. Ignatia Van den VeyverDr. Ignatia Van den Veyver is prof of obstetrics and gynecology — maternal fetal medicine astatine Baylor, a subordinate of Baylor’s Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center and module astatine the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute astatine Texas Children’s Hospital.
The Van den Veyver lab investigates the genetics and epigenetics of reproductive disorders, Aicardi syndrome, Goltz Syndrome, prenatal gene-environment interactions and prenatal genetics.
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