
Opioid Hormones
Description
Key Features
- Focuses on the newest aspects of hormone action in connection with diseases
- Lays the groundwork for the focus of new chemotherapeutic targets
- Represents reviews on emerging areas in hormone action, cellular regulators and signaling pathways
Readership
Intense basic science to the molecular and physiological aspects of a particular disease state. The audience includes all basic scientists and clinicians interested in the focus of a given volume
Table of Contents
1. Evolution of proopiomelanocortin
Ana Rocha, Alejandra Godino-Gimeno and José Miguel Cerdá-Reverter
2. Structure and dynamics of dynorphin peptide and its receptor
Guillaume Ferré, Georges Czaplicki, Pascal Demange and Alain Milon
3. Molecular aspects of delta opioid receptors
Louis Gendron, Karim Nagi, Manel Zeghal, Patrick M. Giguère and Graciela Pineyro
4. The role of heat shock protein 90 in regulating pain, opioid signaling, and opioid antinociception
John M. Streicher
5. Enkephalinase regulation
M. Ramírez-Sánchez, I. Prieto, A.B. Segarra, M. Martínez-Cañamero, I. Banegas and M. de Gasparo
6. Limbic circuit connectivity and the stress response: New insights into the mammalian nociceptin peptide system
Allison Jane Fulford and Sarah Keskes
7. Enkephalins and ACTH in the mammalian nervous system
Ewing Duque-Díaz, Olga Alvarez-Ojeda and Rafael Coveñas
8. Opioids and the hormone oxytocin
Leda Kovatsi and Kakia Nikolaou
9. Estrogens as arbiters of sex-specific and reproductive cycle-dependent opioid mechanisms
Alan R Gintzler, Emiliya M. Storman and Nai-Jiang Liu
10. Opioids and reproduction
Beata Seeber, Bettina Böttcher, Elisabeth D´Costa and Ludwig Wildt
11. Kappa opioid receptor and oligodendrocyte remyelination
Fei Wang and Feng Mei
12. Inhibitory role of Gi-coupled receptors on cAMP-driven cancers with focus on opioid receptors in lung adenocarcinoma and its stem cells
Hildegard M. Schuller
13. Prenatal ethanol exposure and enkephalinergic neurotransmission
Milagros Méndez, Karla Hernández-Fonseca and Paula Abate
Product details
- No. of pages: 355
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: August 1, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128188583
- eBook ISBN: 9780128188590
About the Editor
Gerald Litwack
