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Derived from the 13th Rochester Trophoblast Conference/Thomas G. Wegmann Memorial Symposium on Reproductive Immunology held in September 1996 in Banff, Alberta, Canada, the peer-reviewed articles of 91 international contributors advance the state of placental research. Papers on recent mammalian research with implications for normal and problem human pregnancies appear under the major headings of genetic regulation of trophoblast development, regulation of placental function, and autacoids and placental blood flow. In the concluding section, Anthony Carter (U. of Odense, Denmark) reviews the debate he chaired on: "What autacoids, if any, are active at physiologic concentrations in the regulation of blood flow?"Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR