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Recent Progress in Hormone Research

Proceedings of the 1965 Laurentian Hormone Conference

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 1966
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Gregory Pincus
  • Language: English

Recent Progress in Hormone Research, Volume 22 is a collection of papers presented at the 1965 Laurentian Hormone Conference, held at the Mont Tremblant Lodge in Mont Tremblant,… Read more

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Recent Progress in Hormone Research, Volume 22 is a collection of papers presented at the 1965 Laurentian Hormone Conference, held at the Mont Tremblant Lodge in Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada. This book is organized into five parts encompassing 14 chapters, and begins with an introduction to the identification and chemical characterization of hormones, such as parathyroid hormone, the prostaglandins, and ecdysone. The next chapters deal with the physiological functions of known hormones based on papers concerned with insulin, somatotropin, the mechanisms regulating adrenocortical hormone secretion, avian gonadal cycles, and the initiation of reproductive processes in pubertal animals. These topics are followed by discussions on the biochemical basis of steroid hormone metabolism, some consequences of secretory dynamics, and metabolic transformations. This book also surveys the biological effects of steroid analogs, with a particular emphasis on the relation between hormone structure and function. The remaining chapters consider the problem of aldosterone and ecdysone mode of action, as well as hormones in fetal life. Endocrinologists and biologists will find this book rewarding.

Table of contents


Preface

I. Protein Hormones

1. Interactions of Metabolism and the Physiological Role of Insulin

Discussion

2. The Growth-Promoting and Anti-Insulin Actions of Somatotropin

Discussion

3. Parathyroid Hormone: Chemical Properties and Structural Requirements for Biological and Immunological Activity

Discussion

II. Comparative Endocrinology

4. The Prostaglandins

Discussion

5. Environmental and Neuroendocrine Regulation of Annual Gonadal Cycles and Migratory Behavior in Birds

Discussion

III. Steroid Hormones

6. Studies on Leydig Cell Physiology and Pathology: Secretion and Metabolism of Testosterone

Discussion

7. Recent Studies in Steroid Hormone Metabolism in Man

Discussion

8. Biological Effects of Synthetic Gonanes

Discussion

9. Hormones and Breast Cancer

Discussion

10. Mechanisms Regulating Adrenocortical Secretion of Aldosterone and Glucocorticoids

Discussion

IV. Mode of Hormone Action

11. Studies on the Mode of Action of Aldosterone

Discussion

12. Ecdysone, an Insect Steroid Hormone, and Its Mode of Action

Discussion

V. Hormones and Development

13. Modifications in the CNS Regulation of Reproduction after Exposure of Prepubertal Rats to Steroid Hormone

Discussion

14. Problems of Fetal Endocrinology: the Adrenal Glands

Discussion

Author Index

Subject Index


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  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 1, 1966
  • Language: English

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