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Record Nr.

UNINA9910643784203321

Titolo

The pineal gland [[electronic resource] /] / edited by G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Julie Knight

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Churchill Livingstone, 1971

ISBN

0-470-71537-5

0-470-71506-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (415 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium

Altri autori (Persone)

WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward)

KnightJulie

Disciplina

599.0142

599/.01/42

Soggetti

Pineal gland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Ciba Foundation symposium."

Held 30 June-2d July, 1970.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

THE PINEAL GLAND; Contents; Chairman's introduction; The pineal organ: an introduction; Discussion; Neural control of indoleamine metabolism in the pineal; Discussion; Developmental aspects of amphibian pineal systems; Discussion; Differentiation and regression of the cells of the sensory line in the epiphysis cerebri; Discussion; Sensory and glandular elements of the pineal organ; Secretory organelles of the rat pineal gland: electron microscopic and histochemical studies in vivo and in vitro; Discussion; Two compartments in the granulated vesicles of the pineal nerves; Discussion

Control of melatonin synthesis by noradrenaline in rat pineal organ culturesDiscussion; Pineal-brain relationships; Discussion; Luteinization induced by pinealectomy in the polyfollicular ovaries of rats bearing anterior hypothalamic lesions; Discussion; Biochemical fractions and mechanisms involved in the pineal modulation of pituitary gonadotropin release; Discussion; Mechanisms of inhibitory action of pineal principles on gonadotropin secretion; Discussion; Pineal principles and the control of adrenocorticotropin secretion; Discussion

The role of the pineal gland in the control by light of the reproductive



cycle of the ferretDiscussion; Factors influential in determining the gonad-inhibiting activity of the pineal gland; Discussion; The effect of pinealectomy on plasma insulin in rats; Discussion; General Discussion; Summary of symposium; Author Index; Subject Index