Table of Contents

“Surprised by Joy” – Four Decades of Contributions to Developmental Physiology.- sGC-cGMP Signaling:  Target for Anticancer Therapy.- Lawrence D. Longo. From Chronic Fetal Hypoxia to Proteomic Predictors of Fetal Distress Syndrome: A life devoted to research and mentoring based on virtue-ethics.- Pregnancy Programming and Preeclampsia: Identifying a Human Endothelial Model to Study Pregnancy-Adapted Endothelial Function and Endothelial Adaptive Failure in Preeclamptic Subjects.- Regulation of Amniotic Fluid Volume: Evolving Concepts.- Gestational Diabetes, Preeclampsia and Cytokine Release: Similarities and Differences in Endothelial Cell Function.- Heart Disease Link to Fetal Hypoxia and Oxidative Stress.- Fetal Breathing Movements and Changes at Birth.- From Fetal Physiology to Gene Therapy – It All Started in Loma Linda.- 30+ Years of Exercise in Pregnancy.- Gap Junction Regulation of Vascular Tone: Implications of Modulatory Intercellular Communication during Gestation.- Effect of Preeclampsia on Placental Function: Influence of Sexual Dimorphism, microRNA’s and Mihondria.- Altitude, Attitude and Adaptation.- The Separation of Sexual Activity and Reproduction in Human Social Evolution.- The Influence of Growth Hormone on Bone and Adipose Programming.- The Fetal Cerebral Circulation: Three Decades of Exploration by the LLU Center for Perinatal Biology.- Placental Vascular Defects in Compromised Pregnancies: Effects of Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Other Maternal Stressors.- How to Build a Healthy Heart from Scratch.- Estrogen in the Fetus.- Calcitonin Gene Related Family Peptides: Importance in Normal Placental and Fetal Development.