Hormones in normal and abnormal human tissues. / Volume 2 / / ed. by Kenneth Fotherby.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Medicine and Life Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: A. Frohman, L.,; B. Perlstein, I.,; B. Thompson, E.,; Baulieu, E.-E.,; C. Mason, J.,; Concolino, G.,; Conti, C.,; D. Buchanan, K.,; D. Caterson, I.,; Duval, Danièle,; E. Gerich, J.,; Emiliozzi, R.,; F. Holick, M.,; F. Murphy, R.,; Ginsberg, Jody,; Hall, R.,; Harmon, J.,; Hennen, G.,; J. McKenna, T.,; J. Morris, D.,; J. Morton, J.,; L. Forsling, Mary,; L. Robertson, G.,; L. Zerbe, R.,; M. McLachlan, Sandra,; M. Renoir, J.,; Maghuin-Rogister, G.,; Mercier-Bodard, Christine,; N. Premachandra, B.,; Norman, M.,; P. Davis, R.,; P. Lantos, C.,; R. Pasqualini, J.,; R. Soman, V.,; Rees Smith, B.,; Rickards, Carole,; Sciarra, F.,; Sumida, C.,; Szabo, Marta,; W. Henry, R.,; W. J. Flanagan, R.,; W. Taylor, K.,; Williams, Kelley,
• HerausgeberIn: Fotherby, Kenneth,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: Reprint 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Hormones in normal and abnormal human tissues ; Volume 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (551 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• PREFACE
• CONTRIBUTORS
• CONTENTS
• NEUROHYPOPHYSIAL PEPTIDES
• HUMAN SEX STEROID BINDING PLASMA PROTEIN
• ROLE OF THE INSULIN RECEPTOR IN HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASE
• DISTRIBUTION AND METABOLISM OF ALDOSTERONE
• THE SYNTHESIS, SECRETION AND ASSAY OF INSULIN
• PITUITARY GONADOTROPHINS
• CORTICOSTEROIDS AS HORMONES AND METABOLIC PRECURSORS IN NORMAL AND ABNORMAL TISSUES
• ARGININE VASOTOCIN : IDENTIFICATION AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIONS IN MAMMALS
• GLUCAGON AND RELATED PEPTIDES
• PHOTOBIOLOGY, METABOLISM, AND CLINICAL ASPECTS OF VITAMIN D
• RECEPTORS AND MECHANISM OF ACTION OF STEROID HORMONES IN THE FOETAL COMPARTMENT
• CIRCULATING AND TISSUE THYROID HORMONES IN RELATION TO HORMONE ACTION : PATHOPHYSIOLOGIC SIGNIFICANCE
• ALDOSTERONE SECRETION UNDER PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
• SECRETIN AND ITS ROLE IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
• TESTOSTERONE AND HUMAN SKIN
• ECTOPIC PRODUCTION OF A GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING FACTOR BY TUMORS
• THE USE OF HUMAN CELL CULTURES AS MODEL SYSTEMS FOR STUDYING THE ACTION OF GLUCOCORTICOIDS IN HUMAN LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKAEMIAS
• REGULATION OF SOMATOSTATIN SECRETION AND ITS BIOLOGIC ACTIONS
• THE THYROTROPHIN RECEPTOR IN GRAVES’ DISEASE
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Subject Index
• Backmatter