Monographs on Endocrinology – serie
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Glucocorticoid Hormone Action
Av J. D. Baxter, G. G. Rousseau
Häftad, 1979
1126 kr
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We live in an era of "explosions". Not the least threatening of these inflationary events is the information explosion. In spite of data banks, automated indexes, and computerized retrieval systems, science is being overflooded by its products. Much of the responsibility for this state of affairs …
Hypothalamic Control of Lactation
Häftad, 2012
1126 kr
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The contents of this monograph "Hypothalamic Control of Lacta tion" are the result of studies by a nine-man team which has worked together for nine years. The topic is so fascinating that new research students are attracted to it every year, and the circle is growing steadily. This is, in fact, …
Steroid-Protein Interactions
Häftad, 2012
1126 kr
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This is the story of steroid-protein interactions as one investigator sees it. Following the general concept of this monograph series, it emphasizes the results and interpretations obtained in the author's laboratory, and is therefore a subjective account. Recognizing, how ever, that the …
Immunopathology of Insulin
Clinical and Experimental Studies
Häftad, 2011
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Soon after the discovery of insulin in 1922, it became clear that the use of this hormone in the treatment of diabetics is often accom panied by allergy. In 1956 it became possible to determine quantita tively the insulin-binding antibodies which are responsible for the resistance to insulin. The …
Prostaglandins
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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This book was written at the invitation of Dr. H. GOTZE of Springer-Verlag for the series "Monographs in Endocrinology". It is not a comprehensive account of the prostaglandins but has been writ ten with a deliberate emphasis upon those aspects of the field in which I am particularly interested …
Tracer Methods in Hormone Research
Av E. Gurpide
Häftad, 2012
1126 kr
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The purpose of this monograph is to describe theoretical aspects of the interpretation of data obtained from experiments performed with labeled hormones. Quantitative endocrinologic studies involving the use of tracers include the determination of rates at which hormones are secreted by endocrine …
Immunologic Aspects of Testicular Function
Av R.E. Mancini
Häftad, 2011
566 kr
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It has become increasingly evident within the last few decades that immunologic factors are involved in some aspects of the reproductive process and hence in the physiology and pathology of the genital tract. The concept that immune phenomena participate in human reproduction is not new. There are …
Major Sex-Determining Genes
Av S. Ohno
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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Upon wresting the control of the earth from the Titans, Zeus assigned the task of creating living creatures to two Titan brothers who had sided with him in the epic battle just concluded. Because Epimetheus, who had been endowed only with hindsight, had the first hand in this creation, all the good …
Vitamin D
Metabolism and Function
Av H.F. DeLuca
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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Because diseases of the bone are often less acute and less lifethreatening than dis eases of the circulatory system, gastrointestinal tract, kidney, liver, and the nervous system, they have received a disproportionately smaller amount of attention in the medical world. With the average increasing …
Female Sex Steroids
Receptors and Function
Av J.H. Clark, E.J. Peck
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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It is the object of this series of monographs to present the experiments and interpre- tations of a given laboratory. We have attempted in this volume to present our view of receptor-steroid interactions and their relation to steroid-induced responses. This view is necessarily biased by our own …
Hormonal Control of Lactation
Av A. T. Cowie, I. A. Forsyth m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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Research on the hormonal control oflactation - the subject of this monograph - has long been the major interest of this laboratory. Studies were initiated in the mid 1930s by the late Professor S. 1. Folley, FRS, who directed the work with immense enthusiasm and devotion until his untimely death in …
Mathematical Modelling and Computers in Endocrinology
Häftad, 2011
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The building of conceptual models is an inherent part of our interaction with the world, and the foundation of scientific investigation. Scientists often perform the processes of modelling subconsciously, unaware of the scope and significance of this activity, and the techniques available to assist …
Cytochemical Bioassay of Polypeptide Hormones
Av J. Chayen
Häftad, 2012
1126 kr
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The cytochemical bioassay system was described in a short abstract in 1971, and more fully, in the cytochemical bioassay of corticotrophin, in 1972. Since then, cytochemical bioassays have been described for several polypeptide hormones, and these assays are already widely used. It is expedient …
Triiodothyronines in Health and Disease
Av I. J. Chopra
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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The physiology and metabolism of thyroid hormones were areas of intense research investigation during the 1970s. Radioimmunoassays were applied to study the concentration of iodothyronines in biologic fluids. These techniques proved to be highly sensitive, specific, and reproducible as well as …
Hirsutism
Av P. Mauvais-Jarvis, F. Kuttenn m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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In the past 10 years hirsutism has been the object of a considerable number of fundamental studies. It provides endocrinologists with an experimental model for the investigation of androgen secretion, metabolism and mechanism of action. Plasma androgen assay, free testosterone measurement, hepatic …
Auto-immunity in the Endocrine System
Av R. Volpe
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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The present monograph will concern itself with those disorders of the endocrine system, either associated with destruction, interference with function or hyper- function, which are considered to be due to auto-immune processes. Endocrinopathies Non-endocrine auto-immune disorders associated with …
Hormones in Human Amniotic Fluid
Häftad, 2011
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This monograph represents the first comprehensive review of hormones in human amniotic fluid and includes data published up to and including 1980. Recently, more extensive use of amniocentesis for prenatal diagnosis and evaluation of fetal lung maturation has shown that amniotic fluid hormone …
Cushing’s Syndrome
Häftad, 2012
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The unraveling of our knowledge of the functions of the adrenal gland constitutes one exciting development of modern medicine and biochemistry. We owe these advances to the felicitous cooperative efforts of the clinical investigator and the biochemist. Three centuries elapsed between the first …
Prolactin
Physiology, Pharmacology and Clinical Findings
Av E. Flückiger, E. DelPozo m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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Lactogenic hormone activity was first observed in bovine pituitary extracts by Stricker and Griiter in 1928, working in Bouin's laboratory in Strasbourg. Since that time prolactin has been shown to exist in anterior pituitary extracts of almost all vertebrate species investigated. Although its …
Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide
Av J. C. Brown
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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Dr. Raymond Pederson, Dr. Jill Dryburgh and I commenced work on GIP in 1968, when, with the generous help of Professor Viktor Mutt and Professor Erik Jorpes of the Karolinska Inst,itute, Stockholm, we were able to establish that there existed an inhibitory material for acid secretion in …
Pituitary and Testis
Clinical and Experimental Studies
Av D.M. de Kretser, H.G. Burger m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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This monograph brings together our work concerning the relationships be tween the hypothalamus, pituitary and testis. The studies span approximate ly a decade of collaborative work. Over this period our contributions and those of many others have advanced greatly our understanding of many aspects …
Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
Av M.I. New, L.S. Levine
Häftad, 2011
1237 kr
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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) consists of a group of disorders of adrenal steroidogenesis. Each disorder results from an inherited deficiency of one of the several enzymes necessary for normal steroid synthesis. The different enzyme deficiencies produce characteristic patterns of hormonal …
Hormones and Lung Maturation
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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As I reflect on the evolution of this book, I am struck by the differences be tween my early conceptions and the final product. When I was first ap proached by Springer-Verlag regarding a monograph on my interests in the area of fetal lung development, I imagined that it would be relatively easy …
Regulation of Aldosterone Biosynthesis
Physiological and Clinical Aspects
Av Jürg Müller
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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Sixteen years is a long time, not only in human life but also in the rapid history of contemporary endocrinology. Since the publication of the first edition of this monograph, numerous new lines of research and discoveries have greatly contrib- uted to our knowledge of the physiological and …
High-Performance Liquid Chromatography in Endocrinology
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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This book originates from a symposium held at the London Hospital Medical College under the auspices of Applied Chromatography Systems Ltd. to discuss the place of HPLC in the endocrinology field. Many of the authors of the present book were speakers at this symposium. It seemed to us that many …
Hormone Toxicity in the Newborn
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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The account of "neonatal sterilization" is the story of the advocates of direct effect of steroids on the gonads and those who believed in the indirect influence, mediated through the hypothalamus and/or the pituitary gland. As often happens in biology, both convictions represent the same image …
Neurobiology of Reproduction in the Female Rat
A Fifty-Year Perspective
Häftad, 2011
1126 kr
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It has been my privilege and pleasure during the past half century to participate in the unfolding of present-day concepts of the mammalian female reproductive cycles. When the studies recorded here began in the late 1930s it was already established that cyclic ovarian function is governed by …
Gas Phase Chromatography of Steroids
Av Kristen B. Eik-Nes, Evan C. Horning
Häftad, 2012
1126 kr
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Few fields have advanced faster over the past quinquennium than separation and estimation of steroids by the technique of gas phase chromatography. A detailed and complete review of this topic would therefore be beyond the scope of the authors contributing to this monograph. It was, however, felt …
Sex Chromosomes and Sex-Linked Genes
Av Susumu Ohno
Häftad, 2012
1349 kr
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Natural selection operates among individual organisms which differ in their genetic constitution. The degree of hereditary variability within a species is greatly enhanced by cross-fertilization. Indeed, the mechanism of sexual reproduction occurred very early in evolution, for it is seen today …
