A double deletion prevents replication of the pestivirus bovine viral diarrhea virus in the placenta of pregnant heifers
Fig 2
Extracted bovine uteruses and schematic anatomy of bovine placenta.
The photographs in the upper part show uteruses extracted from the heifers during necropsy. The dark red structures visible on the surface of the organs shown on the upper left photograph represent the cotyledons as indicated by an arrow. Another arrow points at a caruncle. The anatomy of the bovine placenta is illustrated in the schemes below. The drawing on the left shows the uterus with the fetus whereas the scheme on the right represents a magnified image of the placentome (marked by a box in the left scheme) illustrating its location and how the structures are in contact represented by the fetal (red) and maternal (blue) epithelium, from which the cell lines used in our analyses were derived (F3 and BCEC, respectively).