The Ovary

The Ovary, Third Edition, includes more than 60% new material that highlights the clinical aspects of human ovarian functions. It covers advances in the areas of genomics, assisted reproductive technology, and cancer diagnosis and treatment. This updated edition synthesizes new information at the molecular, cellular and organismal levels, while also presenting modern ovarian physiology in a more understandable and comparative context. The book looks at ovarian function from a detailed molecular and cellular level that examines all phases of the ovarian lifecycle that places special emphasis on the pathophysiology of the human ovary, including ovarian carcinogenesis.

Includes index.

Part I. The Ovarian Follicular Apparatus: Operational Characteristics ; 1. Follicle Selection in Mammalian Ovaries; 2. Regulation of follicle formation and development by ovarian signaling pathway; 3. Human Folliculogenesis Revisited: The Menstrual Cycle Visualized by Ultrasonography; 4. Development of the Mammalian Ovary and Follicles; 5. Organization of Ovarian Steroidogenic Cells and Cholesterol Metabolism; 6. Inhibin, Activin and Follistatin in Ovarian Physiology; 7. Cell-cell Interactions in the Ovarian Follicles: Role of TGF-beta Superfamily Members; 8. Mutations and Polymorphisms, and their Functional Consequences, in Gonadotropin and Gonadotropin Receptor Genes; 9. Environmentally Induced Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Ovarian Disease; Part II. Oocyte Maturation and Ovulation ; 10. Mammalian Oogenesis -- the fragile foundation of the next generation; 11. Regulation of Mammalian Oocyte Maturation; 12.

Oocyte Meiotic Maturation; 13. Gene Expression During Oogenesis and Oocyte Development; Part III. The Corpus Luteum ; 15. Molecular Regulation of Progesterone Production in Corpus Luteum; 16. Corpus Luteum Formation; 17. Luteolysis and The Corpus Luteum of Pregna…