AUTHOR=Bao Junjie , Garfield Robert E. TITLE=Editorial: The mechanisms of parturition and preterm birth JOURNAL=Frontiers in Endocrinology VOLUME=14 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/endocrinology/articles/10.3389/fendo.2023.1179856 DOI=10.3389/fendo.2023.1179856 ISSN=1664-2392