“Surprised by Joyâ€{u0880}Ưur Decades of Contributions to Developmental Physiology -- sGC-cGMP Signaling:Â{u0521}rget 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 â€{u0274} 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, microRNAâ€{u3821}nd Mitochondria -- 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.

To celebrate the Center for Perinatal Biologyâ€{u3834}0th Anniversary, an illustrious group gathered at Loma Linda University in February 2013. That gathering of experts and this volume of the proceedings are a tribute to the founder of the Center, Lawrence D. Longo, M.D. These chapters present contributions from individuals who in some way or another were influenced by Dr. Longo. Covering a wide range of topics, and illustrating the diversity of thinking and scientific interests, these proceedings address basic science through to clinical problems in the developmental programming of health and disease.