PLACENTAL PACEMAKER? “Placental vessels are not innervated. Therefore the vasomotor activity and vascular tone is not regulated by the nervous system. We propose that rhythmic contractions are triggered by pacemaker cells located in the circular layer of the smooth muscle of blood vessels and spread via gap junctions.”
http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/11776962
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022