Size at birth / / [editors, Katherine Elliott, Julie Knight]

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Elsevier : Excerpta Medica : North-Holland, 1974
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (420 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 612.6/47
• Soggetto topico: Birth size; Fetus - Growth
• Altri autori: ElliottKatherine KnightJulie
• Note generali: "Held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 12th-14th March 1974."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Size at Birth; Contents; Introduction; Pathology of the deprived fetus and its supply line; Discussion; The assessment and control of human fetal growth; Discussion; The infant of inappropriate size; Discussion; Immediate and long-term consequences of being large or small at birth: a comparative approach; Discussion; Differential organ growth in littermate rabbits; Discussion; Experimental growth retardation in rhesus monkeys; Discussion; Chromosomal and other genetic influences on birth weight variation; Discussion; The influence of the fetal hypothalamus and pituitary on growth ; The role of the thyroid gland and kidneys in fetal growth Discussion of the two preceding papers; Birth weight of lambs: influences and consequences; Discussion; Assessment of metabolic control in diabetic pregnancy; Discussion; Physical methods of assessing size at birth; Discussion; Fetal malnutrition and brain development; Discussion; Total parenteral nutrition in infants of very low birth weight; Discussion; Maternal nutrition, birth weight and infant mortality; Discussion; Risk factors in human intrauterine growth retardation; General Discussion; The causes of small-for-dates births ; Normal variation Chromosomal and other congenital anomalies; Infections; Poor uterus; Placenta and cord; Vascular disease in the mother; Drugs, medicaments and smoking; Other causes; Index of contributors; Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.
• Titolo autorizzato: Size at birth
• ISBN: 9786613693778; 9781280783388; 1280783389; 9780470720097; 0470720093; 9780470717776; 0470717777
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812685003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 27.