Table of Contents:
  • SESSION I / Chairman Gregory Pincus
  • Statement of the Problem / Lewis Engel
  • The Hormonal Regulation of Metabolic Processes / Claude Villee
  • SESSION II / Chairman Frank Westheimer
  • Interactions between Steroid Hormones and Other Biologically Important Substances / Jesse Scott and Lewis Engel
  • Interactions between Steroids and Proteins / Ulrich Westphal
  • Mechanism of Action of Adrenal Cortical Hormones / Abraham White, Melvin Blecher and Lillian Jedeikin
  • SESSION III / Chairman Leo Samuels
  • Mechanism of Action of Steroid Hormones: Progesterone / Yale Topper
  • The In Vivo and In Vitro Effects of Estrogen and Progesterone on the Myometrium / Arpad Csapo
  • Mechanism of Action of Steroid Hormones: Androgens / Ralph Dorfman
  • Renal ß-Glucuronidase Response to Steroids of the Androgen Series / William Fishman
  • A Mechanism of Action for Estrogenic Steroid Hormones / Dwain Hagerman and Claude Villee
  • SESSION IV / Chairman Konrad Bloch
  • Structure and Chemical Reactivity in the Steroids / Richard Turner
  • Modification of Hormonal Activity by Stereochemical and Electronic Alteration of the Steroid Molecule / Howard Ringold
  • SESSION V / Chairman A. Baird Hastings
  • Enzyme Mechanisms in Relation to the Mode of Action of Steroid Hormones / Keith Laidler and Richard Krupka
  • Regulatory Effects of Enzyme Action / Vathan Kaplan
  • Concluding comments / DeWitt Stetten.