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Opioid Hormones

  • 1st Edition, Volume 111 - August 1, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Gerald Litwack
  • Language: English

Vassopressin, Volume 111, the latest release in the Vitamins and Hormones series, first published in 1943, covers the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal s… Read more

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Description

Vassopressin, Volume 111, the latest release in the Vitamins and Hormones series, first published in 1943, covers the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal structure, physiology and enzyme mechanisms, with this release focusing on topics relating to hepcidin, bacterial infection, and iron overload, the role of heparan sulfates in hepcidin regulation, hepcidin CDNA and human gene sex hormones, growth factors and hepcidin, HFE gene polymorphisms and hereditary hemochromatosis, hepcidin and il-1beta, hepcidin-ferroportin axis, cardiomyocyte hepcidin, adipocyte iron, leptin and hepcidin, regulators of hepcidin expression, and much more.

Key features

  • Focuses on the newest aspects of hormone action in connection with diseases
  • Lays the groundwork for the focus of new chemotherapeutic targets
  • Represents reviews on emerging areas in hormone action, cellular regulators and signaling pathways

Readership

Intense basic science to the molecular and physiological aspects of a particular disease state. The audience includes all basic scientists and clinicians interested in the focus of a given volume

Table of contents

1. Evolution of proopiomelanocortinAna Rocha, Alejandra Godino-Gimeno and José Miguel Cerdá-Reverter2. Structure and dynamics of dynorphin peptide and its receptorGuillaume Ferré, Georges Czaplicki, Pascal Demange and Alain Milon3. Molecular aspects of delta opioid receptorsLouis Gendron, Karim Nagi, Manel Zeghal, Patrick M. Giguère and Graciela Pineyro4. The role of heat shock protein 90 in regulating pain, opioid signaling, and opioid antinociceptionJohn M. Streicher5. Enkephalinase regulationM. Ramírez-Sánchez, I. Prieto, A.B. Segarra, M. Martínez-Cañamero, I. Banegas and M. de Gasparo6. Limbic circuit connectivity and the stress response: New insights into the mammalian nociceptin peptide systemAllison Jane Fulford and Sarah Keskes7. Enkephalins and ACTH in the mammalian nervous systemEwing Duque-Díaz, Olga Alvarez-Ojeda and Rafael Coveñas8. Opioids and the hormone oxytocinLeda Kovatsi and Kakia Nikolaou9. Estrogens as arbiters of sex-specific and reproductive cycle-dependent opioid mechanismsAlan R Gintzler, Emiliya M. Storman and Nai-Jiang Liu10. Opioids and reproductionBeata Seeber, Bettina Böttcher, Elisabeth D´Costa and Ludwig Wildt11. Kappa opioid receptor and oligodendrocyte remyelinationFei Wang and Feng Mei12. Inhibitory role of Gi-coupled receptors on cAMP-driven cancers with focus on opioid receptors in lung adenocarcinoma and its stem cellsHildegard M. Schuller13. Prenatal ethanol exposure and enkephalinergic neurotransmissionMilagros Méndez, Karla Hernández-Fonseca and Paula Abate

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 111
  • Published: August 13, 2019
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Gerald Litwack

Dr. Litwack has authored 3 textbooks on biochemistry and hormones (one with John Wiley & Sons and 2 with Academic Press/Elsevier) and he has edited more than 70 volumes in the Vitamins & Hormones series (Academic Press/Elsevier); he has edited 14 volumes entitled Biochemical Actions of Hormones (Academica Press); He has edited (with David Kritchevsky) Actions of Hormones on Molecular Processes (Academic Press)

Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Founding Chair and Professor, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, United States Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University, United States

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