Hormone production in endocrine tumours / / editors for the Ciba Foundation, G. E. W. Wolstenholme and Maeve O'Connor

• Pubblicazione: Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Little, Brown and Company, , 1958; ©1958
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Disciplina: 618.1
• Soggetto topico: Endocrine glands - Tumors; Neoplastic endocrine-like syndromes
• Persona (resp. second.): WolstenholmeG. E. W.; O'ConnorMaeve
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; PREFACE; CONTENTS; CHAIRMAN'S OPENING REMARKS; EXPERIMENTAL PITUITARY TUMOURS*; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; INDUCTION OF PITUITARY TUMOURS AND MELANOMAS IN THE GOLDEN HAMSTER; Introduction; Experimental; Discussion; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; NORMAL AND ABNORMAL IODINATED COMPOUNDS IN THE SERUM OF SUBJECTS WITH CARCINOMA OF THE THYROID*; Thyroxine and 3 : 5 : 3'-tri-iodothyronine in serum of subjects with thyroid carcinoma; Discussion; Summary; REFERENCES; GOITROGEN-INDUCED THYROID TUMOURS; Acknowledgement; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION ; BIOSYNTHESIS OF STEROIDS IN HYPERACTIVE AND TUMOUR-BEARING HUMAN GLANDSGonadal hyperactivity and tumours; Adrenal hyperactivity and tumours; Summary; Acknowledgement; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; THE PRODUCTION OF OESTROGENIC HOR-MONES BY GRANULOSA CELL TUMOURSIN MICE; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; GENERAL DISCUSSION; HYPERPLASIA AND TUMOURS OF THE HUMAN ADRENAL CORTEX: HISTOLOGY, ENZYMIC CHANGES AND CORTICOID PRODUCTION; Effect of exogenous ACTH on morphology, histochemis - try and enzyme content of human adrenal cortex in cases of bilateral adrenalectomy for mammary carcinoma ; Application of above findings to lesions of the adrenalcortex causing adrenogenital and Gushing's syndromesRemissions in Cushing's syndrome; Cortical tumours causing Gushing's syndrome; Summary; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; TUMOURS OF THE ADRENAL CORTEX*; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; CONSIDERATION OF SOME TYPES OF ADRENAL TUMOURS; Normal Individuals; Idiopathic hirsutism; Adrenocortical tumours; Chemical nature of the 3β-hydroxysteroid; Cortisone suppression and adrenocorticotrophic hor- mone stimulation; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; SOME STUDIES ON OVARIAN TUMORIGENESIS* ; Factors influencing the origin of ovarian cancerFactors that may modify ovarian tumour formation and hormone production; General summary; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; BIOCHEMISTRY OF CYSTIC OVARIES*; Ovarian weight and histology in cyst induction; Ovarian cholesterol in cyst induction; Ovarian nucleic acids in cyst induction; The uptake of 32P in cyst induction; Lactic acid in cyst induction; Rat cystic fluid hormones; Ovarian cyst regression patterns; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; GONADOTROPHINS IN CASES OF HYDATIDIFORM MOLE AND CHORIONEPITHELIOMA OF THE UTERUS; REFERENCES ; EFFECT OF PITUITARY ABLATION ON GONADOTROPHIN EXCRETION IN WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCERREFERENCES; DISCUSSION; GONADOTROPHINS, ANDROGENS AND OESTROGENS IN CASES OF MALIGNANT TUMOURS OF THE TESTIS; Technique; Results; Conclusions and Summary; REFERENCES; FOLLICLE-STIMULATING HORMONE IN THE URINE OF PREGNANT WOMEN; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; INTERSTITIAL CELL TUMOURS OF THE MOUSE TESTIS: STUDIES OF TUMORIGENESIS, DEPENDENCY AND HORMONE PRODUCTION*; Tumorigenesis; Tumour Dependency; General pattern of dependency; Effect of administered LH ; Direct effect of oestrogen and influence of intrasplenic transplantation
• Titolo autorizzato: Hormone production in endocrine tumours
• ISBN: 0-470-71908-7; 0-470-71655-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830590203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ciba Foundation colloquia on endocrinology ; ; Volume 12.