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Recent Progress in Hormone Research
Proceedings of the 1966 Laurentian Hormone Conference
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1967
- Editor: Gregory Pincus
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 2 3 2 9 - 2
Recent Progress in Hormone Research, Volume 23 is a collection of papers presented at the 1966 Laurentian Hormone Conference, held at Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada. This… Read more
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Request a sales quoteRecent Progress in Hormone Research, Volume 23 is a collection of papers presented at the 1966 Laurentian Hormone Conference, held at Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada. This conference explores four major areas of research, including thyroid physiology, thyroid hormones, contemporary developments in peptide hormone chemistry and biochemistry, and special studies of insulin, particularly in man. This book is organized into four parts encompassing 14 chapters. Part I deal with the factors controlling thyroid stimulation and special studies of the mode of action of thyroid hormones, including antithyroid drugs. Part II describes the mode of action of steroid hormones and hormonal steroids based on the effects on normal and neoplastic tissues. This part also looks into a definitive segment of research in endocrinology with the metabolism of the steroid hormones in vivo and in vitro. The discussion of an important clinical condition involving adrenocortical steroid production is given in the chapter concerned with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Parts III and IV explore the synthesis of peptide hormones and insulin. These parts also tackle the gastrointestinal hormone biochemistry, the detection of at least two insulin-like activities in human serum, and the particular control of insulin activity in man. This book is directed primarily toward endocrinologists.
Preface
I. Thyroid Physiology
1. The Long-Acting Thyroid Stimulator: Its Role in Graves' Disease
Discussion
2. Studies of Thyrotropin Physiology by Means of Radioimmunoassay
Discussion
3. Extrathyroid Effects of Some Antithyroid Drugs and Their Metabolic Consequences
Discussion
4. Thyroid Hormones and the Biochemistry of Amphibian Metamorphosis
Discussion
II. Steroid Hormones
5. Studies of the Mode of Action of Adrenal Steroids on Lymphocytes
Discussion
6. Biochemical and Morphological Responses of Normal and Neoplastic Mammary Tissue to Hormonal Treatment
Discussion
7. Formation and Metabolism of Steroids in the Fetus and Placenta
Discussion
8. Studies with the 3α-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas testosteroni—Enzyme-Substrate Complementarity as the Basis of Selectivity and Steric Specificity
Discussion
9. Disorders of Adrenal Steroid Biogenesis
Discussion
III. Peptide Hormones
10. New Approaches to the Chemical Synthesis of Peptides
Discussion
11. Contemporary Developments in the Biochemistry of the Gastrointestinal Hormones
Discussion
IV. Insulin and the Pancreas
12. Synthetic Insulins
Discussion
13. Nonsuppressible Insulinlike Activity of Human Serum: Purification, Physicochemical and Biological Properties and Its Relation to Total Serum ILA
Discussion
14. Effect of Amino Acids and Proteins on Insulin Secretion in Man
Discussion
Author Index
Subject Index
- No. of pages: 702
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1967
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9781483223292
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