Anatomy of the fetal membranes: insights from spinning disk confocal microscopy.
Hannah Marie EichholzAlissa CornelisBenjamin WolfHanna GrubitzschPhilip FriedrichAhmad MakkyBahriye AktasJosef Alfons KäsHolger StepanPublished in: Archives of gynecology and obstetrics (2023)
The presented method proves to be well suited to determine whether and how the occurrence of membrane (micro) fractures and cellular jamming correlate with the timing of membrane rupture and the mode of delivery. In future measurements, this method could be combined with mechanical probing techniques to compare optical and mechanical sample information.