The endocrine system is a complex and well-organized mechanism by which body
homeostasis is maintained. Infact, peptide or protein hormones play important roles in the …

Publisher Summary This chapter illustrates the evolutionary aspects of the endocrine and
nervous systems. In mammals and other vertebrates, the major systems of intercellular …

The development of methods for cloning DNA complementary to specific messenger RNAs
encoding polypeptide hormones has opened new experimental avenues in the …

The peptide hormones are small proteins that regulate cellular metabolism through their
specific interactions with tissues of the endocrine, nervous, and immune systems, as well as …

Nuclear receptors form a superfamily of ligand-activated transcription factors. In contrast to
the significant advances made in recent years to dissect nuclear receptor structure and their …

Multicellular organisms use intercellular communication mechanisms to ensure their survival
by coordinating the responses necessary for adjusting to constantly changing external and …

In the first half of the 20th century, endocri-nology was a physiological discipline that was
based on the assumption that a limited number of hormones exist and that a hormone is …

Hormones, Fourth Edition provides a report on the field of human hormones viewed in light
of our current understanding of cellular and subcellular architecture, along with the …

During the last five years, cDNAs and genes encoding more than 20 neuroendocrine
peptides have been cloned. The information gleaned from these genes has been largely …