This unique book delves into the mysteries of human fetal growth and maturation. Growing
knowledge in genetics indicates that factors that impact on influence fetal growth and
maturation may have a role in determining a person's health and disease in later years.
Placental maternal environmental nutrient as well as fetal genome factors each play a role
in producing a healthy unhealthy or abnormal baby. A study of fetal growth and maturation is
therefore basic to the understanding of why fetal growth problems occur what implications
these can have for adult disease and how clinical intervention can help to reverse growth
problems. The present study will be comprehensive and will be a major contribution to the
fields of gynecology genetics obstetrics biochemistry molecular biology and clinical
medicine. It will include cutting edge research in the field as well as explorations on
clinical interventions in fetal growth which will not only add to existing knowledge but also
prompt future research. The two Editors are distinguished in their fields and both have
extensive clinical and research experience. They felt that they could use their expertise to
create a book that will help students practitioners researchers and others to understand the
subject of gestation growth and maturation and its implications from a multi-dimensional point
of view which will help them develop their own expertise in a cutting-edge and developing
field. They have brought together medical scientists clinical practitioners embryologists
endocrinologists immunologists gynecologists obstetricians reproductive and molecular
biologists geneticists and many others to create a state-of-the-art book on a subject with
increasing demand for further knowledge. It aims to integrates different disciplines to give a
holistic view of human fetal growth maturation.
