Research Catalog

Title

Understanding and optimizing human development : from cells to patients to populations / edited by Stephen G. Kaler and Owen M. Rennert.

Author

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.). 40th Anniversary Scientific Symposium (2003 : Bethesda, Md.)

Publication

New York, N.Y. : New York Academy of Sciences, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Kaler, Stephen G.
• Rennert, Owen M., 1938-

Description

xvi, 235 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 0077-8923 ; v. 1038

Subject

• Human growth > Congresses
• Cytology > Congresses
• Molecular biology > Congresses
• Developmental neurobiology > Congresses

Note

• "This volume is the result of National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 40th Anniversary Scientific Symposium, presented by NICHD, and held on September 8, 2003, in Bethesda, Maryland."--P. [v].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available via the World Wide Web.

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Contents

• History of intramural clinical research at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) / by D. Lynn Loriaux -- Mutations in the systhesis and action of estrogen: the critical role of estrogen on pubertal growth, dkeletal maturation, and bone mass / by Melvin M. Grumbach -- An update of congenital adrenal hyperplasia / by Maria I. New -- Genetic causes of mental retardation / by Hugo W. Moser -- Future vaccine development at NICHD / by John B. Robbins and Rachel Schneerson -- Study of translational control of eukaryotic gene expression using yeast / by Alan G. Hinnebusch ... [et al.] -- The formins: connecting embryonic pattern formation and hypofertility in the mouse / by Philip Leder -- Results of a search for the mechanisms of steroid receptor regulation of gene expression / by Bert W. O'Malley -- Developmental biology of zebrafish / by Igor B. Dawid -- Developmental genetics of drosophila / by Edward B. Lewis -- Origins of growth factors: NGF and EGF / by Stanley Cohen -- Insights into the biogenesis of lysosome-related organelles from the study of the Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome / by Juan S. Bonifacino -- Dynamics of secretory membrane trafficking / by Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz -- Structure and function of glutamate receptors / by Mark Mayer -- Neuroendocrine basis of human disease / by Roger Guillemin -- Role of growth factors in the nervous system / by Ira B. Black -- Activins and inhibins and their signaling / by Wylie Vale ... [et al.].
• Neurobiology of rehabilitation / by Bruce H. Dobkin -- Temperament and early experience form social behavior / by Nathan A. Fox -- Lessons from the technology of skill formation / by James J. Heckman -- Economic approaches to understanding families / by Gary S. Becker -- Social and economic aspects of immigration / by Douglas S. Massey -- Social change and the American family / by Larry L. Bumpass -- Development of the home pregnancy test / by Judith L. Vaitukaitis -- Development of the pill / by Celso-Ramón García -- Factors influencing perinatal outcomes / by Robert L. Goldenberg.

Call Number

JSL 94-316 v. 1038

ISBN

• 1573315206 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1573315214 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004029519

OCLC

57251030

Author

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.). 40th Anniversary Scientific Symposium (2003 : Bethesda, Md.)

Title

Understanding and optimizing human development : from cells to patients to populations / edited by Stephen G. Kaler and Owen M. Rennert.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : New York Academy of Sciences, 2004.

Series

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 0077-8923 ; v. 1038

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats

Also available via the World Wide Web.

System Details

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Kaler, Stephen G.

Rennert, Owen M., 1938-

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.)

Research Call Number

JSL 94-316 v. 1038