Overview
- Editors:
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Margaret C. Neville
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Department of Physiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, USA
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Marianne R. Neifert
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Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, USA
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xvii
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Introduction
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- Margaret C. Neville, Marianne R. Neifert
Pages 3-20
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The Scientific Basis of Lactation
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- Margaret C. Neville, Jonathan C. Allen, Christopher Watters
Pages 49-102
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- Margaret C. Neville, Sally E. Berga
Pages 141-177
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- Janice E. Errick, Tamiko Kano-Sueoka
Pages 179-196
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The Nutritional and Immunologic Significance of Mammary Secretions
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Front Matter
Pages 197-197
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- Clare E. Casey, K. Michael Hambidge
Pages 199-248
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Medical Management of Breast-Feeding
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Front Matter
Pages 271-271
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- James A. McGregor, Marianne R. Neifert
Pages 333-348
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- Robin Dee Post, Rhoda Singer
Pages 349-366
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- Robert G. Peterson, Watson A. Bowes Jr.
Pages 367-403
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- Mary B. Mockus, Kathryn B. Horwitz
Pages 423-439
About this book
This book had its genesIs In the frustrations of the editors in locating authoritative, up-to-date material for an interdisciplinary graduate course in mammary gland biology, lactation, and breast-feeding. As we turned to the original literature several reasons for the dearth of usable material became clear: (1) In the areas of mammary gland biology and physiology, particularly as they relate to the human, reviews simply have not kept up with current research, which has in the last two decades provided tremendous insight into the mechanisms of milk secretion and its control. (2) The lack of interest in human milk as infant food inhibited researchers until very recently from investigating human lactation. (3) Much of the relevant clinical information remains anecdotal with little scientific basis. In this book we have tried to present the fundamentals of mammary gland physiology at the organismic and cellular levels in a form readily understood by physicians, scientists, and other professionals. This basic information is accompanied by authoritative reviews of the nutritional and immunological properties of human milk and by clinically relevant chapters designed to help health care professionals deal with the medical problems of the breast-feeding mother and her infant. We have strived in these chapters for up-to-date, authoritative, but readable accounts. In so far as possible we have avoided areas where much of our understanding rests on speculation. In the clinical domain this was not always possible because of a lack of solid, scientific information about breast-feeding.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Physiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, USA
Margaret C. Neville
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Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, USA
Marianne R. Neifert
