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proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on Hormonal Steroids, New Delhi, India, October/November 1978
International Congress on Hormonal Steroids 1978 : New Delhi, India)
1 online resource (1098 pages) : illustrations, tables
Front Cover; Hormonal Steroids; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Fifth International Congress on Hormonal Steroids; Editors' Preface; The History of the Steroid Congress; Part 1: Plenary Lectures; CHAPTER 1. GREGORY PINCUS AND STEROIDAL CONTRACEPTION: A NEW DEPARTURE IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. THE TESTIS: BIOCHEMICAL ACTIONS OF TROPHIC HORMONES AND STEROIDS ON STEROID PRODUCTION AND SPERMATOGENESIS; SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; STEROID PRODUCTION; LH EFFECTS INVOLVED IN LEYDIG CELL STEROIDOGENESIS; EFFECTS OF STEROIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES
CHAPTER 3. CHEMICAL REACTIONS OF STEROIDS WHICH IMITATE THE SELECTIVITY OF ENZYMATIC TRANSFORMATIONSREFERENCES; CHAPTER 4. HUMAN CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN AND OVARIAN AND PLACENTAL STEROIDOGENESIS; hCG SYNTHESIS AND ITS REGULATION; BIOLOGICAL ROLE OF HCG IN PREGNANCY; EARLY PREGNANCY; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5. RECENT ADVANCES IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE VITAMIN D ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; VITAMIN D AS A STEROID HORMONE; THE FUNCTIONS OF VITAMIN D; FUNCTIONAL METABOLISM OF VITAMIN D; METABOLISM OF 25-OH-D TO OTHER METABOLITES, ESPECIALLY 24,25-DIHYDROXY-VITAMIN D3
THE FURTHER METABOLISM OF l,25-(OH)2D3ANTAGONISTS OF VITAMIN D METABOLISM; REGULATION OF THE VITAMIN DMETABOLIC SYSTEM; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CALCIUM ECONOMY DISEASES; MECHANISM OF ACTION OF I,25-(OH)2D3 IN THE TARGET TISSUES; USE OF VITAMIN D METABOLITIES AND THEIR ANALOGS FOR TREATMENT OF DISEASE; REFERENCES; Part 2: Symposia; CHAPTER 6. TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF NATURAL AND NON-NATURAL STEROID HORMONES; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 7. SYNTHESIS AND STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS IN A NOVEL SERIES OF TOPICALLY ACTIVE CORTICOSTEROIDS; SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL; DISCUSSION; REFERENCES
CHAPTER 8. S£CO-OESTRADIOLS AND SOME NON-STEROIDAL OESTROGENS: STRUCTURAL CORRELATES OF OESTROGENIC ACTIONSUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; SEC0-OESTRADIOL; CHROMENES AND CHROMANS; DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 9. WATER-SOLUBLE STEROIDAL ANAESTHETICS; SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; METHODS; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 10. STEROID ANTAGONISTS: PHARMACOLOGICAL EFFECTS, AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLES?; SUMMARY; 18-DEOXYALDOSTERONE AND SPIRONOLACTONE: RECEPTOR SPECIFICITY VERSUS RESIDUAL AGONIST ACTIVITY; THE LIMITS OF RECEPTOR SPECIFICITY: OESTROGENIC AND/OR ANDROGENIC SIDE EFFECTS
SUPRAMAXIMAL' STEROID CONCENTRATIONS AND HIGH-AFFINITY RECEPTORS: THE NECESSITY FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTAGONISTSREFERENCES; CHAPTER 11. ACTION OF A NON-STEROID ANTI-ANDROGEN, RU 23908, IN PERIPHERAL AND CENTRAL TISSUES; SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; MATERIALS AND METHODS; RESULTS; DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 12. A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE EFFECTS OF THE ANTIANDROGEN, CYPROTERONE ACETATE, ON THE EPIDIDYMIS IN CONNECTION WITH FERTILITY CONTROL IN THE MALE; SUMMARY; COMMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 13. AROMATASE INHIBITORS AND THEIR USE IN CONTROLLING OESTROGEN-DEPENDENT PROCESSES; SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION
edited by V.H.T. James and J.R. Pasqualini.
Includes bibliographical references and index.