Steroid Hormone Administration [[electronic resource] ] : Volume 3: Book II of Colloquia on Endocrinology

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910144671703321
• Autore: Symposium CIBA Foundation
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, : Wiley, 2009
• ISBN: 0-470-71515-4; 0-470-71484-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (407 p.)
• Collana: Novartis Foundation Symposia ; ; v.815
• Disciplina: 612
• Soggetti: Endocrinology; Hormones; Steroids; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Hormones, Psychology and Behaviour Steroid Hormone Administration and Steroid Hormone Administration; Contents; Book I-Hormones, Psychology and Behaviour; Chairman's Opening Remarks; Part I-Psychological and behavioural reactions connected with the physiological production of steroid hormones.; Sex and species differences in the behavioural effects of gonadal hormones; Discussion; Sex differences in the maturation and function of the nervous system in the rat; Discussion; The influence of sex hormones on the performance of a learned response; Discussion; Patterns of male sex behaviour; DiscussionThe experimental induction of sexual behaviour by steroid hormones; Discussion; On the excretion of neutral steroids in the urine of normal and infertile bulls; Discussion; Observations on reproduction behaviour in zoo animals; Discussion; Uterine distension, ovarian hormones and maternal behaviour in rodents; Discussion; The effect of domestication on the steroids of animals and man; Discussion; Part II-Psychological and behavioural reactions connected with pathological disturbances of steroid hormone production; The interplay between endocrine disturbances and psychological aberrationsDiscussion; Behaviour patterns and psychiatric disturbances ; in major endocrine disorders; Discussion; Psychological changes connected with spontaneous and experimentally produced alterations in steroid hormone metabolism; Discussion; Observations on the mechanism of the disordered psychological outlook in Addison's disease and hypopituitarism; Discussion; Adrenal function in schizophrenic men; Discussion; Clinical types of altered sexuality in relation to adrenal- ectomy; The relationship of steroids to psychosis; DiscussionPart III-Psychological and behavioural reactions as side efiects of steroid administration; Alterations in psychological states by therapeutic increase in adrenal cortical hormones; Effects of ACTH and cortisone on behaviour; Discussion; Part IV-Efiects of Hormones on the Nervous System; Mechanisms of hormonal action upon behaviour; Discussion; Part V-Debate on Methodology; Chairman's Closing Remarks; Book II-Steroid Hormone Administration; Relation between effect and method of administration of androgens and cestrogens to fowl; Discussion; Some data on emulsions of steroid hormones; DiscussionData on relative absorption rates of subcutaneous pellets of steroid hormones in rats; Studies on the absorption of pellets of steroid hormones and related substances in man; Discussion; Absorption data from tablet implantation in ruminants; Discussion; Data on progesterone physiology and metabolism; Discussion; 17-Ketosteroid excretion and modes of administering testosterone preparations; Discussion; Administration of sex hormones and sexual behaviour; Discussion; Artificial induction of lactation in goats by steroid hor- mones and synthetic estrogens; Discussion of Dr. Cowie's paper