Endocrinology II/1-2.

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CLASSICAL PHYSIOLOGISTS havc generally sought to ascertain principles governing the steady state. However, the most notable feature of the female reproductive system is the total absence of a steady State. The changes may be subtle, but, just as small daily lengthenings of sunlight yield a season, so do subtle changes in hormonal status yield a reproductive cycle. Some events in the cycle can be traced on a day-to-day basis, but others occur at such a pace that a reading must be made every few hours or more often in order to obtain a true account of the shifting functional status. Even during long periods of gestation, the physiological indicators must show a constantly unfolding pattern before the pregnancy can progress. Although the underlying morphological and biochemical processes that manifest these cyclic events and the neural and endocrine mechanisms that generate the cyclicity are only partially understood, a massive volume of information is at hand, as the 50 chapters in... Tovább

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CLASSICAL PHYSIOLOGISTS havc generally sought to ascertain principles governing the steady state. However, the most notable feature of the female reproductive system is the total absence of a steady State. The changes may be subtle, but, just as small daily lengthenings of sunlight yield a season, so do subtle changes in hormonal status yield a reproductive cycle. Some events in the cycle can be traced on a day-to-day basis, but others occur at such a pace that a reading must be made every few hours or more often in order to obtain a true account of the shifting functional status. Even during long periods of gestation, the physiological indicators must show a constantly unfolding pattern before the pregnancy can progress. Although the underlying morphological and biochemical processes that manifest these cyclic events and the neural and endocrine mechanisms that generate the cyclicity are only partially understood, a massive volume of information is at hand, as the 50 chapters in the two parts of this volume make evident.
Female Reproductive System^ edited by Roy O. Creep, is the second volume in the Section Endocrinology of the Handbook of Physiology. Volume I, Endocrine Pan-creaSy edited by Donald F. Steiner
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American Physiological Socicty by The Williams & Wilkins Company Baltimore, Maryland 21202
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and Norbert Freinkel, was published in 1972. Editors of the other volumes in the section on endocrinology are Ernst Knobil, Wilbur H. Sawyer, Monte A. Greer, David H. Solomon, Gerald D. Aurbach, George Sayers, Hermann Blaschko, A. David Smith, and Roy O. Greep. The Section Editors are Roy O. Greep and Edwin B. Astwood.
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