Fetal Nutrition, Metabolism and Immunology

History of the Rochester Trophoblast Conferences.- Nutrition.- Nutrition, Intrauterine Growth Retardation and the Placenta.- The Ultrastructural Basis of the Nutritional Transfer: Evidence of Different Patterns in the Plasma Membranes of the Multilayered Placental Barrier.- Human Placental Amino Acid Transfer and Metabolism in Oxygenated and Anoxic Conditions.- Bidirectional Transfer of ?-Aminoisobutyric Acid by the Perfused Human Placental Lobule.- The Effects of Anoxia on Human Placental Metabolism and Fetal Substrate Profile Investigated by an In Vitro Placental Perfusion Technique.- Clearance of ?-Aminoisobutyric Acid during In Situ Perfusion of the Guinea Pig Placenta.- Factors Affecting the Uptake of ?-Amino Acids by Human Placental Villus: Acetylcholine, Phospholipid Methylation, Ca++ and Cytoskeletal Organization.- Depression of Amino Acid Uptake in Human Placental Villus by Cocaine, Morphine and Nicotine.- Transport of Nutrients in the Early Human Placenta: Amino Acid, Creatine, Vitamin B12.- Studies on the Placental Hydrolysis and Transfer of Lipids to the Fetal Guinea Pig.- Doppler Assessment of Fetoplacental Circulatory Dynamics.- Fine Structure of the Human Chorion Laeve.- Nutrition Reports.- Metabolism.- Enzymes, Receptors, Metabolism and Placental Function.- cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase and cAMP, cGMP and Calcium Stimulated Phosphorylation in Human Placenta: Comparison of Cytosol and Membrane Fractions.- Interaction between Membrane Function and Protein Synthesis in the Human Placenta In Vitro.- Metabolic Changes in Human Placental Tissue in Diabetes Mellitus.- Steroid and Protein Metabolism by the Trophoblast.- In Vivo and In Vitro Studies of the Dehydroepiandosterone Sulfate Metabolism in Cases of Impaired Estrogen Secretion.- The Placenta as a Target Tissue for Steroids.- The Placental Secretion of SP1: A Comparison of Concentrations in Retroplacental and Peripheral Blood.- Storage and Release of Renin and hCG in Trophoblast from Human Chorion Laeve.- The Arachidonic Acid Pathway and the Secretion of Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) and Progesterone by the Cultured Human Choriocarcinoma JEG-3 Cell.- Metabolism Reports.- Immunology.- Antibody-Induced Abortion in pp Women in Three Different Studies.- A Cell-Mediated Immune Defect in Recurrent Spontaneous Abortions.- Pregnancy-Associated Plasma Protein-A (PAPP-A) is a Specific Inhibitor of the Third Component of Human Complement.- The Embryopathologic Effects of Teratogenic Yolk Sac Antiserum.- Analysis of Sera from Monkeys with Histories of Fetal Wastage and the Identification of Teratogenicity in Sera from Human Chronic Spontaneous Aborters using Rat Embryo Cultures.- Prolonged Survival of Human Decidual Grafts in a Xenogeneic Host.- Immunology Reports.- List of Contributors.