Understanding and Optimizing Human Development: From Cells to Patients to Populations

by Kaler, Stephen G.; Rennert, Owen M.

• ISBN13: 9781573315203
• ISBN10: 1573315206
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-30
• Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences

Table of Contents

Letter from the Program	ix
Duane Alexander
Preface	xi
Stephen G. Kaler
Owen M. Rennert
In Memoriam	xiii
Celso-Ramon Garcia
In Memoriam	xv
Edward B. Lewis
Part I. Clinical Sciences
History of Intramural Clinical Research at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)	1	(6)
D. Lynn Loriaux
Mutations in the Synthesis and Action of Estrogen: The Critical Role in the Male of Estrogen on Pubertal Growth, Skeletal Maturation, and Bone Mass	7	(7)
Melvin M. Grumbach
An Update of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia	14	(30)
Maria I. New
Genetic Causes of Mental Retardation	44	(5)
Hugo W. Moser
Future Vaccine Development at NICHD	49	(11)
John B. Robbins
Rachel Schneerson
Part II. Gene Expression
Study of Translational Control of Eukaryotic Gene Expression Using Yeast	60	(15)
Alan G. Hinnebusch
Katsura Asano
Deanne S. Olsen
Lon Phan
Klaus H. Nielsen
Leos Valasek
The Formins: Connecting Embryonic Pattern Formation and Hypofertility in the Mouse	75	(5)
Philip Leder
Results of a Search for the Mechanisms of Steroid Receptor Regulation of Gene Expression	80	(8)
Bert W. O'Malley
Part III. Growth and Development
Developmental Biology of Zebrafish	88	(6)
Igor B. Dawid
Developmental Genetics of Drosophila	94	(4)
Edward B. Lewis
Origins of Growth Factors: NGF and EGF	98	(5)
Stanley Cohen
Part IV. Cell Biology
Insights into the Biogenesis of Lysosome-Related Organelles from the Study of the Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome	103	(12)
Juan S. Bonifacino
Dynamics of Secretory Membrane Trafficking	115	(10)
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Structure and Function of Glutamate Receptors	125	(6)
Mark Mayer
Part V. Neurobiology
Neuroendocrine Basis of Human Disease	131	(7)
Roger Guillemin
Role of Growth Factors in the Nervous System	138	(4)
Ira B. Black
Activins and Inhibins and Their Signaling	142	(6)
Wylie Vale
Ezra Wiater
Peter gray
Craig Harrison
Louise Bilezikjian
Senyon Choe
Neurobiology of Rehabilitation	148	(23)
Bruce H. Dobkin
Part VI. Social and Behavioral Sciences
Temperament and Early Experience Form Social Behavior	171	(8)
Nathan A. Fox
Lessons from the Technology of Skill Formation	179	(22)
James J. Heckman
Economic Approaches to Understanding Families	201	(5)
Gary S. Becker
Social and Economic Aspects of Immigration	206	(7)
Douglas S. Massey
Social Change and the American Family	213	(7)
Larry L. Bumpass
Part VII. Reproductive Sciences
Development of the Home Pregnancy Test	220	(3)
Judith L. Vaitukaitis
Development of the Pill	223	(4)
Celso-Ramon Garcia
Factors Influencing Perinatal Outcomes	227	(8)
Robert L. Goldenberg
Index of Contributors	235