Edited by
Peter Leung, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Eli Adashi, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.
Description
This second edition of
The Ovary incorporates the dramatic research developments regarding the ovarian life cycle within
the past decade.
It looks at ovarian function from a detailed molecular and cellular level. The updated chapters, along with the new
material, represent an unparalleled compilation of chapters relevant to contemporary ovarian physiology. The book is divided into 8 sections:
The Ovarian Follicular Apparatus: Operational Characteristics; Oocyte Maturation and Ovulation; The Corpus Luteum; Putative Intraovarian
Regulators; Cyclic Ovarian Cell Death; Novel Experimental Models; Human Ovarian Pathophysiology: Select Aspects; and Human Ovarian Surface
Epithelium and Neoplasia.
Audience:
Reproductive endocrinologists, physiologists, cell and molecular biologists, fertility/infertility specialists, as well as obstetriticans and gynocologists.
