Biochemical actions of hormones. Volume IX /
Biochemical Actions of Hormones V9.
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New York :
Academic Press,
1982.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 3. Nutritional Regulation of K+ Conductance: An Unsettled Aspect of Pancreatic B Cell PhysiologyI. Introduction; II. Chronology and Magnitude of the Changes in K+ Conductance; III. Consequences of the Glucose-Induced Change in K+ Permeability; IV. Mechanism of the Glucose-Induced Changes in K+ Conductance; V. Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 4. Insulin Sensitive Glucoregulator Chemoreceptors in the Central Nervous System: Their Putative Role in Glucose Homeostasis; I. Hepatic Glucose Metabolism as the Final Common Pathway of Blood Sugar Regulation; II. CNS Glucoreceptors
- III. Insulin Sensitive CNS ReceptorsIV. Demonstration of Insulin in the CNS; V. Biological Perspectives and Unanswered Questions; VI. Summary; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 5. Estrogen-Inducible Growth Factors: Proposal of New Mechanisms of Estrogen-Promoted Tumor Cell Growth; I. Introduction; II. Three Possible Estromedin Mechanisms; III. Evidence for an Endocrine Estromedin Control of Estrogen-Responsive Tumor Cell Growth; IV. Evidence for Either Paracrine or Autocrine Estromedin Control in Vivo; V. Summary of the Relationship of the Estromedin Hypothesis to Other Estrogenic Models
- AcknowledgmentsReferences; Chapter 6. Chemical Characterization of Nuclear Acceptors for the Avian Progesterone Receptor; I. Introduction; II. General Mechanism of Action of Steroid Hormones; III. Studies on the Existence and Chemical Nature of Nuclear Acceptor Sites for Many Steroid-Target Tissue Systems; IV. Cell-Free Nuclear Binding Assays as Probes for the Nuclear Acceptor Sites; V. The Approach to the Chemical Characterization of the Chromatin Acceptor Sites for the Progesterone Receptor in the Hen Oviduct