THE TRANSITION FROM THE FETAL circulation to isolated extrauterine life marks the most dramatic challenge to an individual’s cardiovascular system. Even though the fundamental peculiarities of the fetal circulation have been discovered in the 19th century already, many mechanisms playing important roles in the lategestational and perinatal fetal circulation remain poorly understood. This is ref...

Brandon J Rose1, Robert E Seegmiller2, Laura C Bridgewater3 and David L Kooyman1* 1Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, Brigham Young University, 4005 LSB, Provo, USA 2College of Dental Medicine, Roseman University of Health Sciences, South Jordan, USA 3Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, 4007 LSB, Provo, USA *Corresponding author: David L ...

Comparative developmental physiology spans genomics to physiological ecology and evolution. Although not a new discipline, comparative developmental physiology's position at the convergence of development, physiology and evolution gives it prominent new significance. The contributions of this discipline may be particularly influential as physiologists expand beyond genomics to a true systems sy...

The ontogeny of cardiovascular and respiratory physiology in vertebrates has been, and continues to be, an area of intense study (45, 87, 124, 28, 105, see Annual Review of Physiology 1984. 46:617-703). While clinicial benefits accrue from a knowledge of the developmental physiology of fetal mammals, much of the motivation for general vertebrate research on this topic stems from a fascination w...

Arend F Bos* MD PhD, Neonatologist, Department of Pediatrics, Beatrix Children’s Hospital, University Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands; Christa Einspieler PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology, Department of Physiology, Karl Franzens University; Heinz F R Prechtl DM DPhil FRCOG (Hon), Professor Emeritus of Developmental Neurology, Department of Physiology, Karl Franzens University, Graz, A...

I have taught developmental biology in Essen for 30 years. Since my department is named Zoophysiologie (Zoophysiology), besides Developmental Biology, I also have to teach General Animal Physiology. This explains why the time for teaching developmental biology is restricted to a lecture course, a laboratory course and several seminar courses. However, I also try to demonstrate in the lecture co...