Description
Clinical Neuroendocrinology, Volume II discusses neuroendocrine science and its application to the analysis of human physiology and behavior.
This book stresses the importance of the interrelationships between central and peripheral signals, neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and target glands and peripheral tissues to ensure coordination of somatic and behavioral development and function. The ""centralist"" concepts of the importance of brain hormones are revised in this text, emphasizing that neurohumoral factors isolated from brain tissues, and initially considered to be primarily involved in the central nervous system regulation of the endocrine system, also exist outside the brain and spinal cord.
This volume is valuable to neuroendocrinologists, but is also a good source for those involved in basic and clinical research and patient management.
Chapter
V. EFFECT OF HORMONES ON THE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR OF ANIMALS
VI. CONTROL OF LIBIDO AND POTENTIA
VII. SEXUAL IDENTIFICATION IN THE HUMAN
VIII. MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH AMBIGUOUS GENITALIA
Chapter 2. The Hypothalamic–Pituitary Unit: The Maturation of the Neuroendocrine System in the Fetus
II. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY UNIT
III. THE REGULATION OF ADENOHYPOPHYSEAL FUNCTION IN THE FETUS AND NEONATE
Chapter 3. Neurotransmitter Control of Anterior Pituitary Hormone Secretion and Its Clinical Implications in Man
II. ROLE OF CATECHOLAMINERGIC NEUROTRANSMITTERS
III. ROLE OF SEROTONIN (5-HT)
IV. ROLE OF ACETYLCHOLINE
V. ROLE OF HISTAMINE AND y-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID (GABA)
VI. ROLE OF OPIOID PEPTIDES
VII. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF NEUROPHARMACOLOGICAL MEDIATION OF HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY RELATIONSHIPS
Chapter 4. Neuroendocrine Correlates of the Endorphins and Enkephalins
II. ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF THE ENKEPHALINS AND ENDORPHINS
III. MEASUREMENT OF THE ENKEPHALINS AND ENDORPHINS
IV. DISTRIBUTION OF OPIATE RECEPTORS AND ENDOGENOUS OPIATE PEPTIDES
VI. POSSIBLE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL ROLES OF ENDOGENOUS OPIATE PEPTIDES
VII. CONCLUSION—FUTURE OUTLOOK
Chapter 5. Studies on Melatonin and Other Pineal Factors
II. PINEAL-BRAIN INTERACTION
IV. FUTURE TRENDS IN PINEAL RESEARCH
Chapter 6. Endocrine Changes in Psychiatric Illness
Chapter 7. Clinical Context, Neuroendocrine Relationships, and Nature of Inhibin in Males and Females
II. DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE EXISTENCE OF INHIBIN
IV. PHYSIOLOGY OF INHIBIN
V. THE MODERN INHIBIN HYPOTHESIS
Chapter 8. Gut Hormones and the Brain
V. MOLECULAR HETEROGENEITY
VII. THE BRAIN-VISCERAL AXIS
VIII. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 9. Somatostatin and Its Physiology in Man in Health and Disease
II. ISOLATION, STRUCTURE, AND SYNTHESIS OF SOMATOSTATIN
III. ACTIONS OF EXOGENOUSLY ADMINISTERED SOMATOSTATIN
IV. MECHANISM OF ACTION OF SOMATOSTATIN
V. MEASUREMENT OF SOMATOSTATIN
VI. METABOLISM OF SOMATOSTATIN
VII. ANATOMICAL LOCALIZATION OF SOMATOSTATIN
VIII. MOLECULAR HETEROGENEITY OF SOMATOSTATIN
IX. THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLE OF SOMATOSTATIN
X. PATHOLOGY OF SOMATOSTATIN
Chapter 10. Interspecies Study on the Distribution of Peptide Hormones Secreted by Neurons
II. HORMONES OF THE HYPOTHALAMIC-NEUROHYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM
III. LUTEINIZING HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE
V. THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE
VI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION