Placental hypervascularization in a rat model. Data set

This dataset provides the complete morphometric, biochemical, and histomorphometric data from a study investigating the placental adaptations to short-term, diet-induced maternal obesity in Wistar rats. The data documents the successful induction of an obese phenotype without metabolic syndrome and reveals a key, counterintuitive finding: compensatory hypervascularization of the placental labyrinth zone. The provided files include a spreadsheet with raw quantitative data and a collection of image files that visually represent the key findings and experimental results. This dataset is valuable for researchers in reproductive biology, developmental programming, and metabolism.