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Vertebrate Endocrinology
- 6th Edition - October 10, 2020
- Authors: David O. Norris, James A. Carr
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 0 9 3 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 0 9 4 - 0
Vertebrate Endocrinology, Sixth Edition, provides a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the endocrine system for college and university students as well as researche… Read more
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Request a sales quoteVertebrate Endocrinology, Sixth Edition, provides a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the endocrine system for college and university students as well as researchers. This book is logically arranged, easily comprehended, and well-illustrated. It covers traditional hormone-based systems and introduces all forms of chemical communication, their implications for the health of humans, domesticated, and wild vertebrates.
Written by two experts who have completed extensive research in comparative vertebrate endocrinology with an emphasis on natural and anthropogenic environmental factors influencing endocrine systems. Collectively, the authors have taught courses in endocrinology at the undergraduate and graduate level for more than 60 years.
After first publishing in 1985, Vertebrate Endocrinology, Sixth Edition, continues to serve as an important resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the biological sciences, animal sciences, and veterinary sciences. Endocrine researchers will also benefit from the book’s relevance in the areas of comparative, veterinary, and mammalian endocrinology.
- Addresses the endocrinology of all vertebrate and non-vertebrate chordates
- The only endocrinology textbook that deals with evolutionary aspects of endocrine systems
- Includes biochemical, cellular, tissue, organismic, behavioral, and environmental aspects of chemical communication
Graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the biological sciences, animal sciences, veterinary sciences
1. An Overview of Chemical Bioregulation in Vertebrates
2. Methods to Study Bioregulation
3. Synthesis, Metabolism, and Actions of Bioregulators
4. Organization of the Mammalian Hypothalamus-Pituitary Axes
5. The Hypothalamus Pituitary System in Non-Mammalian Vertebrates
6. The Hypothalamus Pituitary Thyroid, (HPT) Axis of Mammals
7. The Hypothalamus Pituitary Thyroid (HPT) Axis of Non-Mammalian Vertebrates
8. The Mammalian Adrenal Glands: Cortical and Chromaffin Cells
9. Comparative Aspects of Vertebrate Adrenals
10. The Endocrinology of Mammalian Reproduction
11. Comparative Aspects of Vertebrate Reproduction
12. Chemical Regulation of Feeding, Digestion and Metabolism
13. Comparative Aspects of Feeding, Digestion, and Metabolism
14. Regulation of Calcium and Phosphate Homeostasis in Vertebrates
15. Environmental Endocrinology of Vertebrates
Appendix
A. Abbreviations
B. Vertebrate Phylogeny and Evolution
C. Amino Acid Abbreviations
D. Units for Measuring Hormones in Tissues
E. Vertebrate Tissue Types
F. Metabolic Pathways
- No. of pages: 656
- Language: English
- Edition: 6
- Published: October 10, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128200933
- eBook ISBN: 9780128200940
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David O. Norris
David O. Norris is Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado. He obtained his BS from the Baldwin-Wallace University and his PhD from the University of Washington. His broad research areas include environmental endocrinology and forensic botany. In the area of environmental endocrinology, his studies have focused on the neuroendocrine control of thyroid, adrenal, and reproductive functions with special interest in the role of environmental factors that alter the activities of these neuroendocrine systems. In the area of forensic botany, he specializes in the identification of food plants in the stomachs of modern humans with respect to determining time of death.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, USAJC
James A. Carr
Dr. James Carr is Professor at Texas Tech University. He obtained his BSc at Rutgers University and his PhD at the University of Colorado. He studies neuroendocrinology and the environmental endocrinology of amphibians and fishes, and he has taught courses in physiology, endocrinology, histology, and neurobiology. His endocrine research focuses on the neuroendocrinology of stress, the role of visual system neuropeptides in behavioral tradeoffs, and lab and field studies into the role of EDCs that adversely influence thyroid and reproductive physiology.
Affiliations and expertise
Texas Tech UniversityRead Vertebrate Endocrinology on ScienceDirect