Note: Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments and Copyright Information -- Section 1. INTRODUCTION -- Section 2. SPIN AND ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM -- Section 3. LABORATORY BEAMS CARRYING ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM -- Section 4. OPTICAL FORCES AND TORQUES ON PARTICLES -- Section 5. OPTICAL FORCES AND TORQUES ON ATOMS -- Section 6. ROTATIONAL FREQUENCY SHIFTS -- Section 7. ANGULAR MOMENTUM IN NONLINEAR OPTICS -- Section 8. ENTANGLEMENT OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM -- Back Cover.

Note: Front Cover -- Fetal Endocrinology -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1. SOME NEW THOUGHTS ON THE FETOPLACENTAL UNIT AND PARTURITION IN PRIMATES -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- PLACENTAL ESTROGENS -- PLACENTAL PROGESTERONE PRODUCTION -- PARTICIPATION OF FETAL MEMBRANES IN HORMONE PRODUCTION -- STUDIES IN MACACA MULATTA -- SUMMARY: MECHANISM FOR PARTURITION IN PRIMATES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2. DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTION OF THE HUMAN FETAL ADRENAL CORTEX -- INTRODUCTION -- ANATOMICAL DEVELOPMENT -- BIOCHEMICAL DEVELOPMENT -- MAINTENANCE OF THE FETAL ZONE -- DAILY STEROID PRODUCTION BY THE FETAL ADRENAL CORTEX -- EVIDENCE FOR A THIRD-TRIMESTER SURGE IN FETAL ADRENAL STEROID SECRETION -- POSTMATURITY SYNDROME -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3. POSTNATUM EVOLUTION OF THE ADRENAL GLANDS OF RHESUS MACAQUES -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4. REGULATION OF FETOPLACENTAL STEROIDOGENESIS IN RHESUS MACAQUES -- INTRODUCTION -- ADMINISTRATION OF ACTH TO FETUSES -- ADMINISTRATION OF ACTH TO MOTHERS -- SELECTIVE PLACENTAL SECRETION OF ESTRADIOL -- REGULATORY MECHANISMS OF FETOPLACENTAL STEROIDOGENESIS -- SUPPLY OF PRECURSORS -- TROPIC FACTORS -- PLACENTAL BIOSYNTHETIC CAPACITY -- ADMINISTRATION OF DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE, DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE, OR ANDROSTENEDIONE TO FETUSES AND MOTHERS -- REGULATION OF ESTROGEN BIOSYNTHESIS AND PLACENTAL BLOOD FLOW -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5. PRIMATE CHORIONIC GONADOTROPINS: THEIR COMPARATIVE BIOLOGICAL, IMMUNOLOGIC, AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES -- INTRODUCTION -- STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES -- IMMUNOLOGIC PROPERTIES -- BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6. COMPARISON OF URINARY ESTROGENS DURING PREGNANCY IN DIVERSE SPECIES -- INTRODUCTION. , MATERIALS AND METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7. CHORIONIC SOMATOMAMMOTROPIN IN PRIMATES: SECRETION AND PHYSIOLOGY -- INTRODUCTION -- SYNTHESIS AND SECRETION OF HUMAN CHORIONIC SOMATOMAMMOTROPIN BY PLACENTAL TISSUE -- BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY -- SECRETION AND METABOLISM -- CLINICAL CORRELATION WITH ABNORMALITIES OF GESTATION -- STUDIES DURING SIMIAN GESTATION -- PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLE OF CHORIONIC SOMATOMAMMOTROPIN DURING GESTATION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8. PLACENTAL THYROID STIMULATORS AND THYROID FUNCTION IN PREGNANCY -- INTRODUCTION -- PLACENTAL BARRIER -- FETAL THYROID FUNCTION -- PLACENTAL THYROID STIMULATORS -- THYROID FUNCTION IN PREGNANCY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9. GROWTH FACTORS IN FETAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- INFLUENCE OF FETAL AND PLACENTAL HORMONES ON FETAL GROWTH -- SOMATOMEDINS IN FETAL GROWTH -- INFLUENCE OF OTHER PEPTIDE GROWTH FACTORS ON FETAL GROWTH -- INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CLASSICAL HORMONES AND GROWTH FACTORS: MEDIATORY HORMONES -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10. PRODUCTION AND ACTIVITY OF PLACENTAL RELEASING HORMONES -- HYPOTHALAMIC RELEASING AND INHIBITING HORMONES -- EXTRAHYPOTHALAMIC RELEASING AND INHIBITING HORMONES -- HUMAN PLACENTAL RELEASING AND INHIBITING HORMONES -- HUMAN-CHORIONIC-GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11. ENDOCRINOLOGY OF PARTURITION -- INTRODUCTION -- COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY OF PARTURITION -- PARTURITION IN NONHUMAN PRIMATES -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12. SEX-DETERMINING GENES AND GENE REGULATION -- INTRODUCTION -- HY ANTIGEN AS THE INDUCER OF THE MAMMALIAN TESTES -- CLONING OF "SEX-SPECIFIC" SATELLITE DNA OF ELAPHE RADIATA: PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS AND EVOLUTIONARY CONSERVATION -- REGULATION OF EUKARYOTIC GENE EXPRESSION -- CONFUSION IN THE HY ANTIGEN STORY? -- REFERENCES. , CHAPTER 13. TESTICULAR HORMONE PRODUCTION IN FETAL RHESUS MACAQUES -- INTRODUCTION -- ANDROGEN IN FETAL BLOOD -- ESTROGENS IN FETAL BLOOD -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 14. CONTROL OF PITUITARY GONADOTROPIN SECRETION IN FETAL RHESUS MACAQUES -- INTRODUCTION -- BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE AND IMMUNOREACTIVE GONADOTROPINS -- GONADAL CONTROL OF FETAL LUTEINIZING-HORMONE SECRETION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 15. DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGULATORY MECHANISMS OF THE HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-GONADAL SYSTEM IN THE HUMAN FETUS: THE CHORIONIC-HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY- GONADAL AXIS -- INTRODUCTION -- INITIATION OF GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE AND FOLLICLE-STIMULATING HORMONE-LUTEINIZING HORMONE SYNTHESIS -- DEVELOPMENT OF THE HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY VASCULAR LINK -- PITUITARY RESPONSIVENESS TO GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE -- GONADOTROPIN CONTROL OF FETAL GONADAL DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTION -- DEVELOPMENT OF FEEDBACK MECHANISMS -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 16. PITUITARY PEPTIDES IN PRIMATE FETUSES -- INTRODUCTION -- FETAL ACTH AND ACTH-LIKE PEPTIDES -- FETAL POSTERIOR PITUITARY: OXYTOCIN AND VASOPRESSIN -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 17. DIFFERENTIATION OF MALE SOCIAL TRAITS IN FEMALE RHESUS MACAQUES BY PRENATAL TREATMENT WITH ANDROGENS: VARIATION IN TYPE OF ANDROGEN, DURATION, AND TIMING OF TREATMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 18. ENDOCRINE CONTROL OF SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION IN THE HUMAN -- INTRODUCTION -- FORMATION OF SEXUAL PHENOTYPES -- DIFFERENTIATION OF THE GONADS AS ENDOCRINE ORGANS -- ENDOCRINE CONTROL OF PHENOTYPIC DEVELOPMENT -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 19. MALE PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM SECONDARY TO 5α/-REDUCTASE DEFICIENCY: A REVIEW -- INTRODUCTION -- CLINICAL DESCRIPTION -- BIOCHEMICAL DATA -- PSYCHOSEXUAL ASPECTS. , DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 20. DEVELOPMENT OF THE FETAL ADRENALS IN NONHUMAN PRIMATES: ELECTRON MICROSCOPY -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 21. PERSPECTIVES IN FETAL ENDOCRINOLOGY -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX.

Note: Description based on print version record