Recent progress in hormone research : the proceedings of the Laurentian Hormone Conference. Volume V /
Recent Progress in Hormone Research: The Proceedings of the Laurentian Hormone Conference, Volume 5 presents the proceedings of the sixth annual meeting of the Laurentian Hormone Conference held on September 1949 at Franconia, New Hampshire. The book presents articles on humoral mediators in nervous...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Academic Press, Inc., Publishers,
1950.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Recent Progress in Hormone Research; Copyright Page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; PART I: HUMORAL MEDIATORS IN NERVOUS TRANSMISSION; Chapter 1. Sympathetic Hormonal Transmission; I. INTRODUCTION; II. SIMILARITY BETWEEN EFFECTS OF ""SUSPECT"" SUBSTANCE AND THOSE OF SYMPATHETIC STIMULATION; III. PRESENCE OF ""SUSPECT"" SUBSTANCE IN THE BODY BY BIOLOGICAL OR CHEMICAL IDENTIFICATION; IV. PRESENCE OF ""SUSPECT"" SUBSTANCE IN THE VENOUS BLOOD OR PERFUSATE DURING LOCAL SYMPATHETIC STIMULATION
- v. PRESENCE OF ""SUSPECT"" SUBSTANCE IN THE FLUID BATHING AN ISOLATED SYMPATHETIC NERVE DURING STIMULATIONVI. PRESENCE OF THE SUSPECT ""AMINE"" IN THE EXTRACTS OF TISSUES-SYMPATHETIC NERVES OR OTHER TISSUES; VII. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; Chapter 2. The Acetylcholine System in Neural Function; I. HISTORY; II. A DETOUR INTO NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; III. MORE HISTORY; IV. ACh AND THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; V. ACh AND PERIPHERAL NERVE; VI. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; PART II: OVARIAN PHYSIOLOGY AND FUNCTION; Chapter 3. The Vasculature of the Ovary and Ovarian Function
- I. NECESSARY CONDITIONS OF BLOOD FLOW IN THE OVARYII. ADAPTATION OF OVARIAN VASCULATURE TO CHANGE IN SIZE F THE OVARY; III. ARTERIAL VASCULATURE IN THE HUMAN OVARY; IV. EQUALIZATION OF BLOOD FLOW IN THE OVARY; V. REGULATION OF BLOOD PRESSURE IN THE OVARY; VI. THE VASCULATURE OF THE OVARY AND AGE; VII. OVARIAN PATHOLOGY AND THE OVARIAN VASCULATURE; VIII. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; Chapter 4. Androgenic Activity of the Ovary; I. ANDROGENIC ACTIVITY IN NORMAL FEMALES; II. SPONTANEOUS ABNORMALITY OF THE OVARY; III. EXPERIMENTAL MODIFICATION OF THE OVARY
- IV. ANDROGENIC ACTIVITY OF GRAFTED OVARIESV. SOURCE AND NATURE OF THE OVARIAN ANDROGEN; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; Chapter 5. Some Aspects of the Physiology of Estrogenic Hormones; I. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE ESTROGENIC HORMONES; II. THE BIOLOGIC EFFECTS OF THE ESTROGENS; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; Chapter 6. Maintenance of the Corpus Luteum and Physiologic Actions of Progesterone; I. SECRETORY AND DECIDUAL CHANGES INDUCED IN THE ENDOMETRIUM OF OOPHORECTOMIZED WOMEN; II. MAINTENANCE OF CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION; III. METABOLIC EXCRETION PRODUCTS OF PROGESTERONE
- IV. THE URINARY PREGNANEDIOL TEST AS A DIAGNOSTIC AND PROGNOSTIC PROCEDUREV. SUMMARY; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; PART III: PITUITARY PHYSIOLOGY AND FUNCTIONS; Chapter 7. Steroid Control of Pituitary Function; I. INTRODUCTION; II. ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; III. TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; IV. PROGESTERONE; V. HISTOCHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF THE EFFECT OF VARIOUS DOSAGES OF ESTRADIOL AND TESTOSTERONE ON THE OVARIES AND ADRENALS; VI. ADRENALS AND THYMUS CORRELATIONS; VII. FURTHER EXPERIMENTS BEARING ON PITUITARY FUNCTION; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION