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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830270803321

Titolo

Foetal autonomy [[electronic resource] ] : a Ciba Foundation Symposium / / edited by G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Maeve O'Connor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Churchill, 1969

ISBN

1-280-58890-X

9786613618733

0-470-71968-0

0-470-71730-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium

Altri autori (Persone)

WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward)

O'ConnorMaeve

Disciplina

599.033

599/.03/3

Soggetti

Fetus

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

FOETAL AUTONOMY; Contents; Chairman's opening remarks; Implantation and the maternal recognition of pregnancy; Discussion; The foetus as an allograft: the role of maternal "unresponsiveness" to paternally derived foetal antigens; Discussion; Independently regulated synthetic transitions in foetal tissues; Discussion; The extent of foetal endocrine autonomy; Discussion; Foetal metabolism; Discussion; Roles of placental lactogen in foetal-maternal relations; Discussion; The development of the foetal lung; Discussion; The course and distribution of the foetal circulation; Discussion

Foetal blood gas homeostasisDiscussion; Some changes in neuromuscular functions occurring in the perinatal period; Discussion; Normal and abnormal foetal weight gain; Discussion; The foetal role in the initiation of parturition in the ewe; Discussion; Reactions of the foetus to drugs taken by the mother; Discussion; Role of hormones in programming the central nervous system; Discussion; Genetic assimilation of environmental variability in the organization of behavioural capacities of the developing nervous system; Discussion; General discussion; Chairman's closing remarks; Author index



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