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The Pregnancy and Neonatology Study Section [PN] reviews applications related to the physiology of pregnancy and placental development, parturition, clinical obstetrics, maternal/ fetal medicine, and fetal/neonatal development utilizing molecular/genetic, cellular, whole-organ/animal/subject, and biochemical methodologies. Emphasis is on clinical and basic models to understand pregnancy progression and its disorders. Specific areas covered by PN:

• Placental development and maintenance: trophoblast invasion and differentiation; endocrinology and hormone production; transport functions; the development of utero-placental blood flow; maternal/fetal immune-tolerance mechanisms; hypoxia.
• Parturition: cervical ripening; myometrial contractility; production of factors leading to labor; obstructive labor; clinical obstetrics.
• Complications of pregnancy: preeclampsia; gestational diabetes; maternal metabolic changes and obesity; fetal origins of disease; spontaneous abortion; pre-term labor; recurrent pregnancy loss; diabetic embryopathy; intra-uterine growth restriction.
• Fetal biology: growth, development, and metabolism; fetal physiology, pharmacology, toxicology, and neurobiology; fetal diseases; in utero infection; maternal-fetal interactions, fetal microchimerism.
• Neonatology: transistion to extra-uterine life; neonatal physiology, endocrinology, and pathophysiology; jaundice; complications of low birthweight; SIDS.

Study sections with most closely related areas of similar science listed in rank order are:

Cellular, Molecular and Integrative Reproduction [CMIR]
Integrative and Clinical Endocrinology and Reproduction [ICER]
Integrative Nutrition and Metabolic Processes [INMP]
Cardiovascular Differentiation and Development [CDD]
Development-1 [DEV1]