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Title Molecular and cellular endocrinology / edited by E. Edward Bittar, Neville Bittar
Published Greenwich, Conn. : JAI Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (2 volumes (xviii, 684 pages)) : illustrations
Series Principles of medical biology ; v. 10A, 10B
Principles of medical biology ; v. 10A, 10B.
Contents Volume 10A; Front Cover; Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Endocrine Feedback Control in Health and Disease; INTRODUCTION; CONTROL THEORY; CONTROL THEORY AND ITS CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. Mechanisms of Negative and Positive Feedback of Steroids in the Hypothalamic-Pituitary System George Fink; INTRODUCTION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK IN THE HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-ADRENAL AXIS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK IN THE HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-GONADAL AXIS
STEROID POSITIVE FEEDBACK: SPONTANEOUS GONADOTROPIN AND PROLACTIN SURGESCLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ESTROGEN FEEDBACK AND THE LHRH SELF-PRIMING EFFECT; OVERALL CONCLUSIONS AND HYPOTHESES; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; Chapter 3. Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Neurosecretory Cells: Regulation of Peptide Expression and Release; INTRODUCTION; THE HYPOTHALOMO-PITUITARY-ADRENAL AXIS; REGULATION OF PEPTIDE EXPRESSION IN HYPOTHALAMIC NEUROSECRETORY CELLS; REGULATION OF PEPTIDE RELEASE FROM NEUROSECRETORY AXONS; SUMMARY; REFERENCES
Chapter 4. Functional Morphology of Hypophysiotropic Hormone-Synthesizing Neurons: Identification, Connectivity, and PlasticityINTRODUCTION; THE HYPOPHYSIOTROPIC HORMONES AS REGULATORS OF ANTERIOR PITUITARY HORMONE SECRETION; HYPOPHYSIOTROPIC AREAS IN THE BRAIN; CONNECTIVITY OF HYPOPHYSIOTROPIC NEURONS: AFFERENTS AND COLOCALIZATION; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; Chapter 5. The Pineal Gland; INTRODUCTION; PINEAL MORPHOLOGY AND INNERVATION; MELATONIN LEVELS IN BLOOD AND OTHER BODY FLUIDS; MELATONIN RECEPTORS/BINDING SITES; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF MELATONIN; SUMMARY; REFERENCES
INTRACELLULAR REGULATION OF PTH SECRETIONREGULATION OF CELL PROLIFERATION; SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 8. The Adrenal Medulla; INTRODUCTION; GROSS ANATOMY OF THE ADRENAL MEDULLA; HISTOLOGY OF THE ADRENAL MEDULLA; STRUCTURE OF THE CHROMAFFIN CELL; PATHOLOGY OF THE ADRENAL MEDULLA; THE ADRENAL MEDULLA AS A MODEL SYSTEM FOR NEUROBIOLOGY; THE CHROMAFFIN VESICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS OF CATECHOLAMINES; UPTAKE OF CATECHOLAMINES INTO CHROMAFFIN VESICLES; STIMULUS-SECRETION COUPLING; TRANSPLANTATION OF THE ADRENAL MEDULLA FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE; SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE; REFERENCES
Summary Molecular and Cell Endocrinology
Analysis endocrinologie
endocrinology
moleculaire biologie
molecular biology
celbiologie
cellular biology
fysiopathologie
physiopathology
hormonen
hormones
Medicine (General)
Endocrinology
Geneeskunde (algemeen)
Endocrinologie
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Molecular endocrinology.
Endocrine glands.
Hormones.
Endocrinology.
Endocrinology
Endocrine Glands
Hormones
Molecular Biology
hormone.
Endocrinology
Endocrine glands
Hormones
Molecular endocrinology
Form Electronic book
Author Bittar, E. Edward
Bittar, Neville
LC no. 97041660
ISBN 9781559388153
1559388153
0080536727
9780080536729