Major Characters. Stanley Yelnats He is the fifteen-year-old main character, the protagonist of the novel. His family has a history of bad luck, and accordingly, Stanley is wrongfully convicted of stealing, and is sent to the detention center, Camp Green Lake.
Term placentas were used as the control group. Exclusion criteria included pregnancies with <32 weeks gestation, diabetes, hypertension, preeclampsia, smoking (consumption >5 cigarettes/day), alcoholism or drug use, twin or multiple pregnancies and genetic diseases in the newborn.
Also the Cryobank of the Institute of Cell Therapy offers to preserve placenta. The exclusiveness of placenta implicates the presence of a variety of biologically active hormone-like substances, the respectable part of which it is impossible to derive from any other sources, as they are synthesized by the organism only in the period of pregnancy.