Hormones and Pregnancy

Felice Petraglia is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Florence and Chief of the Maternal – Infancy Department, Careggi Hospital, Florence, Italy. He is Fellow-ad Eundem of the RCOG. Dr Petraglia is also Editor Emeritus of Human Reproduction Update, Editor of RBMO and Associate Editor of Reproductive Sciences. He is Past President of the Society of Gynecologic Investigation (SGI) and of the Society of Endometriosis and Uterine Disorders (SEUD). Mariarosaria Di Tommaso is Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Florence, Florence, Italy. She is a Member and Italian ambassador of the Society Maternal Fetal Medicine and an Executive Member of the Italian Society Perinatal Medicine.

Section I. Hormones in the Physiology and Pharmacology of Pregnancy: 1. The neuroendocrinology of pregnancy Silvia Vannuccini, Irene Paternò, John R. G. Challis and Felice Petraglia; 2. The placenta as an endocrine organ/placental endocrinology Roger Smith; 3. The role of oxytocin in pregnancy Kiichiro Furuya and Richard Ivell; 4. The role of human chorionic gonadotropin in pregnancy Keiichi Kumasawa and Yutaka Osuga; 5. The role of estrogens in pregnancy Nadia Berkane, Yveline Ansaldi and Nicola Pluchino; 6. The role of progesterone in pregnancy Sam Mesiano; 7. Hormones and the cardiovascular system in pregnancy Daniele Farsetti and Herbert Valensise; Section II. Hormones and Gestational Disorders: 8. Prolactin, prolactinoma and pregnancy Dominique Maiter and Philippe Chanson; 9. Growth hormone disorders in pregnancy Marie Helene Schernthaner-Reiter, Greisa Vila, Peter Wolf and Anton Luger; 10. Gestational diabetes Serena Ottanelli, Federico Mecacci and Moshe Hod; 11. Obesity and metabolic syndrome in pregnancy Kent L. R. Thornburg, Amy M. Valent, Nicole E. Marshall and Jonathan Q. Purnell; 12. Hormones and preterm birth Emily M. Frier, Sarah J. Stock, Stephen Lye and Oksana Shynlova; 13. Thyroid dysfunction in pregnancy and postpartum Luigi Bartalena, Eliana Piantanida, Adriana Lai, and Maria Laura Tanda; 14. The role of hormones in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy Leslie Myatt and James M. Roberts; 15. Adrenal disease in pregnancy Jack Lockett, Warrick Inder, David H. McIntyre, Helen L. Barrett, Sailesh Kumar and Vicki Lee Clifton; 16. Hormones and multiple pregnancy Viola Seravalli, Noemi Strambi and Mariarosaria Di Tommaso; 17. Hormones in pregnancy and the developmental origins of health and disease John R. G. Challis, Felice Petraglia, Deborah M. Sloboda, Victor K. M. Han and Judith G. Hall.