Table of Contents:
  • An introduction
  • Cyclic AMP and hormone action
  • Chemistry of cyclic nucleoside phosphates and synthesis of analogs
  • Formation and metabolism of cyclic AMP
  • Some actions of cyclic AMP
  • The catecholamines
  • Glucagon and insulin
  • Lipolysis in adipose tissue
  • Cyclic AMP and steroidogenesis
  • Other hormones
  • Other cyclic nucleotides
  • Cyclic AMP in lower organisms.