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Vertebrate Endocrinology

This comprehensive and thoroughly updated text surveys comparative vertebrate endocrinology. Intended for an upper division undergraduate class in endocrinology, this useful… Read more

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This comprehensive and thoroughly updated text surveys comparative vertebrate endocrinology. Intended for an upper division undergraduate class in endocrinology, this useful reference will also prove invaluable to faculty, researchers, and graduate students who require up-to-date information on a myriad of endocrine systems. This Third Edition focuses more attention on mammalian systems, neuroendocrinology, and molecular endocrinology. The text has been extensively reviewed by faculty who teach endocrinology and should establish a new teaching standard for comparative vertebrate endocrinology.

Key features

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@bul:* Thoroughly revised and updated
* Comprehensive coverage of comparative endocrinology
* Well illustrated with numerous drawings, graphs, and photomicrographs

Readership

This book is an undergraduate biology majors textbook in endocrinology. Most of these classes are taught as comparative vertebrate endocrinology courses and are taken by students entering fields as diverse as ecology, wildlifebiology, medicine, evolutionary biology physiology, cell biology, and neuroscience. There is a significant secondary audience of faculty, researchers, graduate students, and industrial animal scientists who need a thorough and up-to-date account of vertebrate endocrinology. Because the book is focused upon a relatively advanced level, it should also sell to libraries at institutions with strong programs in the above disciplines.

Table of contents

An Overview of Chemical Regulation.
The Molecular Basis for Chemical Regulation.
Approaches to Endocrine Research. Organization of the Mammalian Hypothalamo-Hypophysial Axis.
Comparative Aspects of the Hypothalamo-Hypophysial System in Nonmammalian Vertebrates.
Neurohormones of the Pars Nervosa and the Epithalamus.
The Hypothalamo-Hypophysial-Thyroid Axis of Mammals.
Comparative Aspects of Vertebrate Thyroids.
The Mammalian Adrenal Glands: Cortical and Chromaffin Cells.
Comparative Aspects of Vertebrate Adrenals.
The Endocrinology of Mammalian Reproduction.
Comparative Aspects of Vertebrate Reproduction.
Regulators of the Gastrointestinal Tract.
Chemical Regulators of Metabolism.
Regulation of Calcium and PhosphateHomeostasis.
Chapter Summaries.
Suggested Readings.
Subject Index.

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About the author

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David O. Norris

David O. Norris is Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado. He obtained his BS from the Baldwin-Wallace University and his PhD from the University of Washington. His broad research areas include environmental endocrinology and forensic botany. In the area of environmental endocrinology, his studies have focused on the neuroendocrine control of thyroid, adrenal, and reproductive functions with special interest in the role of environmental factors that alter the activities of these neuroendocrine systems.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, USA