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ReviewFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2026

Insights into the maternal-fetal interface from spatial multi-omics.

Xiaowei Wei, Qian Li, Haoyi Jia, Chuanmei Qin, Sifan Zou, Yaxuan Hou, Qihan Guo, Xing Li, Yuan Zhang, Jinfang Wang and 1 more

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Review in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Xiaowei Wei *Reproductive Medicine Center, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Qian Li *Reproductive Medicine Center, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Haoyi Jia *Reproductive Medicine Center, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Chuanmei QinReproductive Medicine Center, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Sifan ZouDepartment of Pathology, Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, NY, United States.
Yaxuan HouShanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Qihan GuoDepartment of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States.
Xing LiDepartment of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States.
Yuan ZhangGeneral Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China.
Jinfang WangGeneral Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China.
Yi LinReproductive Medicine Center, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

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Abstract

Recent advances in spatial transcriptomics, spatial proteomics, spatial metabolomics, and multimodal integration strategies have substantially transformed current understanding of the maternal-fetal interface. Rather than functioning as a uniform tissue, the placenta is increasingly recognized as a highly organized multicellular ecosystem in which trophoblast, immune, vascular, and metabolic compartments establish spatially coordinated microenvironments that regulate trophoblast differentiation, immune adaptation, vascular remodeling, and placental homeostasis. Emerging evidence further suggests that placental disorders are driven not simply by trophoblast-intrinsic abnormalities but by dysregulation of localized microenvironmental niches within placental tissues. In particular, preeclampsia (PE) and placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) appear to represent opposite spatial ecosystem states characterized by invasion-restrictive versus invasion-permissive microenvironments, respectively. In this review, we summarize recent spatial multiomic studies focused on the maternal-fetal interface and discuss how spatially resolved approaches are reshaping current understanding of placental disease through a spatial microenvironmental framework.

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maternal–fetal interfaceplacentaplacenta accreta spectrumpreeclampsiaspatial multi-omics

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