CONTENTS

EDITORIAL
Françoise FERRÉ et Jean-Claude CHALLIER.......................... 5


DOSSIER: THE ROLE OF THE MYOMETRIUM INDUCING LABOR
edited by Françoise FERRÉ and Jean-Claude CHALLIER

 Functional genomics of the myometrium during pregnancy, by Michelle BREUILLER-FOUCHÉ,
Gilles CHARPIGNY, Guy GERMAIN............................................7
 Remove progesterone and parturition. Myth or reality in the human myometrium, by Françoise FERRÉ................16
 Operation of a physico-mathematical model of uterine activity in labor,by Thérèse-Marie MIGNOT, Christian VAUGE, Bruno CARBONNE................................ 26
 Fetoplacental unit and parturition. New hypotheses, by Patrick ZEMB, Jean-Yves BELLEC.................... 33


REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
 Contraception and perimenopause by Geoffroy ROBIN, Brigitte LETOMBE, Didier DEWAILLY ................................47


SUBSCRIPTION TO RHH ONLY...........................................46
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS.......................................62