Product Description: The circulatory system is the focus of the first volume in the series. This volume reviews essential topics concerned with fetal and neonatal cardiovascular function. The early chapters provide an overview of the physiological mechanisms that control the circulation in both the fetus and the neonate and the transitional processes that take place at birth...read more

Product Description: This reference offers current information on the pathological alterations that occur in the biosynthesis of hormones during foetal development.;Elucidating the methods of detecting diseases in the embryo using the techniques of molecular biology, this work provides exhaustive discussions of: sex differentiation abnormalities, including genetic control and the role of anti-Mullerian hormone; surfactant-associated proteins during foetal lung development; pathological problems of the placenta; the female reproductive tract immune system; alpha-foetoprotein and its implications in foetal pathology; the effects of prenatally administered sex steroids and anti-steroids on the hormonal responses of offspring; and oncogenes and growth factors during pregnancy...read more