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Neuroendocrinology of Reproduction

Physiology and Behavior

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  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Norman T. Adler

    1. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Chemical Background of Endocrine Function

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Structure of Protein and Peptide Hormones

      • Bruce D. Goldman
      Pages 3-12

    3. Histology of the Pituitary

      • Bruce D. Goldman
      Pages 13-17

    4. Essentials of Steroid Structure, Nomenclature, Reactions, Biosynthesis, and Measurements

      • Harvey H. Feder
      Pages 19-63

    5. Neurotransmitter Systems

      • William R. Crowley, Frank P. Zemlan
      Pages 65-85

  3. Development of Reproductive Function

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Hormonal Actions on the Sexual Differentiation of the Genitalia and the Gonadotropin-Regulating Systems

      • Harvey H. Feder
      Pages 89-126

    3. Perinatal Hormones and Their Role in the Development of Sexually Dimorphic Behaviors

      • Harvey H. Feder
      Pages 127-157

    4. Early Organizational Effects of Hormones

      • Elizabeth Adkins-Regan
      Pages 159-228

    5. Puberty

      • Bruce D. Goldman
      Pages 229-239

  4. Control of Reproduction on the Organismic and Physiological Levels of Organization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241
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    2. Experimental Analysis of Hormone Actions on the Hypothalamus, Anterior Pituitary, and Ovary

      • Harvey H. Feder
      Pages 243-278

    3. Estrous Cyclicity in Mammals

      • Harvey H. Feder
      Pages 279-348

    4. How the Brain Mediates Ovarian Responses to Environmental Stimuli

      • B. R. Komisaruk, E. Terasawa, J. F. Rodriguez-Sierra
      Pages 349-376

    5. Seasonal Reproduction

      • Jeffrey A. Elliott, Bruce D. Goldman
      Pages 377-423

  5. Control of Reproduction on the Cellular and Chemical Level

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 425-425
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    2. CNS Control of the Pituitary

      • Samuel McCann
      Pages 427-450

    3. The Neurochemical Control of Mating Behavior

      • William R. Crowley, Frank P. Zemlan
      Pages 451-484

    4. Cellular Biochemistry of Hormone Action in Brain and Pituitary

      • Bruce S. McEwen
      Pages 485-518
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About this book

The subject of this book is neuroendocrinology, that branch of biological science devoted to the interactions between the two major integrative organ systems of animals-the endocrine and nervous systems. Although this science today reflects a fusion of endocrinology and neurobiology, this synthetic ap­ proach is relatively recent. At the beginning of the 20th century, when the British physiologists, Bayliss and Starling, first proposed endocrinology to be an independent field of inquiry, they went to great lengths to establish the autonomy of chemical secretions in general and their independence from nervous control in particular (Bayliss, W. M. , and Starling, E. H. , 1902, The mechanism of pancreatic secretion,]. Physiol. 28:325). They argued with Pav­ lov, who said that there was a strong influence of the nervous system on the gastrointestinal phenomena the endocrinologists were studying. For several decades, the English physiologists prevailed, at least in the West; and Pavlov's critique was not taken to heart by the practitioners of the newly emerging discipline of endocrinology. Through the work of Harris, the Scharrers, Sawyer, Everett, and others, there has been something of a scientific detente in the latter half of this century; the hybrid field of neuroendocrinology is now regarded as one of the corner­ stones of modern neural science and is of fundamental importance in basic and clinical endocrinology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

    Norman T. Adler

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neuroendocrinology of Reproduction

  • Book Subtitle: Physiology and Behavior

  • Editors: Norman T. Adler

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3875-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-3877-2Published: 31 January 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-3875-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 555

  • Topics: Endocrinology, Neurosciences

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