Human pituitary hormones [[electronic resource] ] : in honour of Professor B.A. Houssay / / editors for the Ciba Foundation, G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Cecilia M. O'Connor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910643845803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boston, : Little, Brown and Co., [1959?]
• ISBN: 1-280-76865-7; 9786613679420; 0-470-71918-4; 0-470-71668-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 p.)
• Collana: Ciba Foundation colloquia on endocrinology ; ; v. 13
• Altri autori (Persone): HoussayB. A; O'ConnorCecilia M <1927-> (Cecilia Mary); WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward)
• Disciplina: 616.4
• Soggetti: Pituitary hormones
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographic references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: CIBA FOUNDATION COLLOQUIA ON ENDOCRINOLOGY; CONTENTS; Chairman's opening remarks; The radiological anatomy of the human pituitary; Discuseion:; Systematic fractionation of human pituitaries; Discuseion:; Studies on human pituitary growth and gonadotropic hormones; Discuseion:; Immunological studies of human growth hormone; Discuseion:; Growth hormone and the mobilization of fatty acids; Discuseion:; Aspects of the metabolic action of human growth hormone; Discuseion:; The effect of growth hormone on urinary calcium excretion; Discuseion:; The variability in physiological response to growth hor- moneShort communication: Growth hormone and aldosterone secretion; Discuseion:; Human pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone I. Clinical effect of a partially purieed preparation; II. Preparation of a highly active fraction; Discuseion:; Some observations on the clinical value of pituitary gonado- tropin assays in human urine; Discuseion:; A method of determining interstitial-cell stimulating hormone in urine: some results in normal and pathological cases; Discuseion:; Adrenocorticotropic hormone and melanocyte-stimu- fating hormone from human pituitary glandsA melanocyte-stimulating hormone from the human Pituitary gland; Discuseion:; Blood concentration of thyrotropic hormone in normal aubjects and in patients with thyroid disease; Discuseion:; General Discuseion: