by Hironori Ando, Kazuyoshi Ukena, Shinji Nagata
ISBNs: 0128206497, 9780128206492, 978-0128206492
English | 2021 | PDF | 63 MB | 1174 Pages
Handbook of Hormones: Comparative
Endocrinology for Basic and Clinical Research, Second Edition presents a
catalog of fundamental information on the structure and function of
hormones from basic biology to clinical use, offering a rapid way to
obtain specific facts about the chemical and molecular characteristics
of hormones, their receptors, signaling pathways, and the biological
activities they regulate. The book's stellar editorial board, affiliated
with the Japan Society for Comparative Endocrinology, brings together
authors that present a compelling structure of each hormone with a
consistent presentation that provides a primer surrounding the plethora
of hormones that now exist. Comparative endocrinology continues to
rapidly expand and new information about hormones is being produced
almost daily, making it important to stay up-to-date. Hormone,
paracrine, and autocrine factors have been identified as key players in a
range of different systems, including immune, musculoskeletal and
cardiovascular. Frontiers between disciplines are being blurred and many
scientists in fields other than endocrinology are interested in
hormones. Scientists now have the unprecedented opportunity to look from
invertebrates to vertebrate and identify novel regulatory factors and
understand their function and how they determine an organism’s
physiology and survival.
