1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458705803321

Autore

Norris David O

Titolo

Vertebrate endocrinology [[electronic resource] /] / author, David O. Norris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier Academic Press, c2007

ISBN

1-280-72888-4

9786610728886

0-08-046639-7

Edizione

[4th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (573 p.)

Disciplina

596/.0142

Soggetti

Vertebrates - Endocrinology

Biology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the Fourth Edition; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. An Overview of Chemical Bioregulation in Vertebrates; I. The Comparative Vertebrate Approach; II. The Origins of Bioregulation; III. Categories of Bioregulators; IV. General Organization of Bioregulatory Systems; V. Cell and Tissue Organization of Bioregulatory Systems; VI. Homeostasis; A. A Homeostatic Reflex Model; VII. Endocrine Disruption of Homeostasis; VIII. Chordate Evolution; A. The Invertebrate Chordates; B. The Vertebrate Chordates; C. Amphibia; D. Reptiles; E. Birds

F. MammalsSuggested Reading; Chapter 2. Methods to Study Bioregulation; I. The Scientific Method; A. Controlled Experimental Testing; B. Representative Sampling; C. The Dose-Response Relationship; D. Occam's Razor and Morgan's Canon; E. Biological Rhythms; II. Methods of Endocrine Analysis; A. Extirpation-Observation and Replacement-Observation; B. Imaging; C. Radioimmunoassay; D. High-Performance Liquid Chromatography/Spectroscopy; E. Immunohistochemistry; F. Techniques for Determining the Number and Characteristics of Receptors; III. Molecular Biology and Bioregulation

A. Genetic and Genomic Approaches in EndocrinologyB. Proteomics; IV.



Animal Models; V. Statistics; Suggested Reading; Chapter 3. Synthesis, Metabolism, and Actions of Bioregulators; I. Amino Acids, Amines, Peptides, and Proteins; A. Catecholamines; B. Indoleamines; C. Peptides; D. Receptors for Amine and Peptide Bioregulators; E. The Second Messenger Concept; F. Turning Off the Response to Bioregulators; G. Effects of Membrane-Bound Bioregulators on Nuclear Transcription; II. Steroid Bioregulators; A. Steroid Structure and Nomenclature; B. Steroid Synthesis

C. Transport of Steroid Hormones in BloodD. Mechanisms of Steroid Action; E. Reproductive Steroid Action; F. Membrane Receptors for Steroids; G. Metabolism and Excretion of Steroid Hormones; III. Thyroid Hormones; A. Structure and Synthesis of Thyroid Hormones; B. Transport of Thyroid Hormones in the Blood; C. Mechanism of Thyroid Hormone Action; D. Metabolism of Thyroid Hormones; IV. Eicosanoids; A. Chemical Structure of Eicosanoids; B. Biosynthesis and Actions of Eicosanoids; V. Other Important Bioregulators; A. Acetylcholine; B. Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA); C. Interleukins

D. Miscellaneous Brain NeuropeptidesE. Gaseous Bioregulators; VI. Summary; Suggested Reading; Chapter 4. Organization of the Mammalian Hypothalamus-Pituitary Axes; I. The Mammalian Pituitary; A. Subdivisions of the Adenohypophysis; B. Cellular Types of the Adenohypophysis; C. Subdivisions of the Neurohypophysis; II. The Mammalian Hypothalamus; A. Sexual Differences in the Hypothalamus; B. Hypothalamic-Releasing Hormones; C. Control of Hypothalamic Hormone Release; D. Paracrine Factors in the Adenohypophysis; III. Tropic Hormones of the Adenohypophysis; A. Category I Tropic Hormones

B. Category II Tropic Hormones

Sommario/riassunto

One of the only books to discuss all vertebrates, the fourth edition of Vertebrate Endocrinology has been completely reorganized and updated to explore the intricate mechanisms that control human physiology and behavior as well as that of other vertebrate animals. Perfect for students in endocrinology, zoology, biology and physiology, it allows readers to gain both an understanding of the intricate relationships among all of the body systems and their regulation by hormones and other bioregulators, but also a sense of their development through evolutionary time as well as the roles of h



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779824303321

Titolo

Rockefeller philanthropy and modern biomedicine [[electronic resource] ] : international initiatives from World War I to the Cold War / / edited by William H. Schneider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-07190-4

9786612071904

0-253-10960-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Philanthropic and nonprofit studies

Altri autori (Persone)

SchneiderWilliam H <1945-> (William Howard)

Disciplina

610.28

610/.7/2

Soggetti

Medicine - Research - Endowments

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE Introduction; TWO The Men Who Followed Flexner: Richard Pearce, Alan Gregg, and the Rockefeller Foundation Medical Divisions, 1919...1951; THREE Irish Medicine's Appeal to Rockefeller; FOUR Make a Peak on the Plain: The Rockefeller Foundation's Szeged Project; FIVE From the Art of Medicine to Biomedical Science in France: Modernization or Americanization?; SIX Passing through the Eye of the Needle: American Philanthropy and Soviet Medical Research in the 1920's; SEVEN The Peking Union Medical College and the Rockefeller Foundation's Medical Programs in China

EIGHT A Central Periphery: The Naples Stazione Zoologica as an Attractor NINE Out of the Ghetto: The Rockefeller Foundation and German Medicine after the Second World War; TEN The Nuffield Foundation and Medical Genetics in the United Kingdom; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The eight case studies in this edited volume show in detail how the Rockefeller Foundation's gifts affected medical research, education, and public health in Europe, the Soviet Union, and China between World War I and the Cold War. Despite the Foundation's goal to help countries with established medical research programs, major advances were achieved



in several countries that did not have a notable history in medical research. In other circumstances, however, the Rockefeller Foundation was confronted