Untitled Document O ne of the important issues in fetal and maternal physiology is the induction of labor and delivery at the appropriate moment.
Neonatal survival requires proper maturation of critical organs at birth.
The fetal maturation process is primarily determined by the development and activation of its adrenocortical axis. This department offers research programs to study several aspects of the neurobiology of the adrenocortical axis at cellular and molecular levels. For a complete description of their research, click on the investigator's name. Identification of Cellular, Molecular, and Neural Bases of Regulation of Gene Expression of the Neuropeptides Mediating the Adrenocortical Stress Response. Dean A. Myers, Ph.D. , Assistant Professor of Physiology Maturation of Anterior Pituitary Corticotropes.