Research Catalog

Title

Maternal-fetal endocrinology / Dan Tulchinsky, A. Brian Little [editors].

Publication

Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Little, A. Brian.
• Tulchinsky, Dan.

Description

xiii, 458 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Subjects

• Fetus > physiology
• Obstetrical endocrinology
• Hormones > physiology
• Pregnancy > physiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Placental Synthesis of Steroid Hormones / Tommaso Falcone and A. Brian Little -- Ch. 2. Placental Polypeptides / Tommaso Falcone and A. Brian Little -- Ch. 3. Pregnancy-Related Changes in the Metabolism of Hormones / Reinhart B. Billiar -- Ch. 4. Endocrine Pancreas and Maternal Metabolism / Mary E. Norton, Thomas A. Buchanan and John L. Kitzmiller -- Ch. 5. Hypertension in Pregnancy / Bahij S. Nuwayhid and Edmond W. Quillen -- Ch. 6. The Renin - Angiotensin - Aldosterone System and Vasopressin / Ellen W. Seely and Thomas J. Moore -- Ch. 7. The Maternal Adenohypophysis / Robert L. Barbieri -- Ch. 8. The Maternal Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands / Michael M. Kaplan -- Ch. 9. The Maternal Adrenal Cortex / George T. Griffing and James C. Melby -- Ch. 10. The Maternal Ovaries / Gerson Weiss -- Ch. 11. Postpartum Lactation and Resumption of Reproductive Functions / Dan Tulchinsky.
• Ch. 12. The Human Fetal Hypothalamus and Pituitary Gland: The Maturation of Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Controlling the Secretion of Fetal Pituitary Growth Hormone, Prolactin, Gonadotropins, Adrenocorticotropin-Related Peptides, and Thyrotropin / Melvin Grumbach and Peter D. Gluckman -- Ch. 13. The Fetal-Maternal Neurohypophyseal System / Rosemary D. Leake -- Ch. 14. The Fetal Adrenal / Beverly E. Pearson Murphy and Charlotte Laplante Branchaud -- Ch. 15. The Fetal Gonad and Sexual Differentiation / Lauri J. Pelliniemi and Martin Dym -- Ch. 16. The Ontogenesis of Thyroid Function and Actions / Delbert A. Fisher and Daniel H. Polk -- Ch. 17. Endocrinology of Implantation / Koji Yoshinaga -- Ch. 18. Maintenance of Pregnancy and the Initiation of Normal and Premature Labor / Tommaso Falcone and A. Brian Little -- Ch. 19. The Influence of Hormones on Fetal Lung Development / Barry T. Smith and Martin Post -- Ch. 20. Carbohydrate Metabolism: Insulin and Glucagon / Mark A. Sperling.
• Ch. 21. Perinatal Mineral Metabolism / Francis Mimouni and Reginald C. Tsang -- Ch. 22. Newborn Adaptation: Adrenocortical Hormones and Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / Mark A. Sperling.

ISBN

0721642322

LCCN

93009931

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries