The Year in Metabolism 1975–1976

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Hormone Receptors, Cyclic Nucleotides, and Control of Cell Function

   • G. D. Aurbach

   Pages 1-43

3. Diabetes Mellitus

   • Stefan S. Fajans

   Pages 45-71

4. Glucagon

   • Roger H. Unger

   Pages 73-111

5. Recent Developments in Body Fuel Metabolism

   • Philip Felig

   Pages 113-136

6. Recent Endocrine and Metabolic Investigations Relevant to Obesity

   • Jules Hirsch, Bruce S. Schneider

   Pages 137-152

7. Disorders of Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism

   • DeWitt S. Goodman

   Pages 153-180

8. Metabolism of Amino Acids and Organic Acids

   • Leon E. Rosenberg, Kay Tanaka

   Pages 181-212

9. Disorders of Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism

   • J. Edwin Seegmiller

   Pages 213-258

10. What’s New — Vitamins and Minerals

    • Louis V. Avioli

    Pages 259-279

11. Nutrition, Growth, and Development

    • Myron Winick

    Pages 281-297

12. Metabolic Aspects of Renal Stone Disease

    • Hibbard E. Williams

    Pages 299-316

13. Metabolism and Metabolic Actions of Ethanol

    • Charles S. Lieber

    Pages 317-342

14. Back Matter

    Pages 343-353

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It is unclear, and really no longer relevant, whether the information explosion that we now contend with has been fostered by the growth of specialization and subspecialization in medicine, or vice versa. What is clear is that the two are mutually supportive and constitute what would be in endocrine parlance a short-loop positive feedback system. As a result, for most areas of medicine, even the subspecialist in that area has a problem in maintaining currency, the more general specialist has substan­ tial difficulty in doing so, and the generalist is tempted to abandon the effort altogether. Nevertheless, for all, both the internal pressures of conscience and self-esteem and the external pressures generated by peer review, recertifi­ cation, and subspecialty boards create the need for continuous self-educa­ tion. We are, therefore, in an era in which the means of dissemination of new information deserves as much creative attention as does its acquisition.

• Insulin Secretion
• Islets Of Langerhans
• amino acid
• diabetes
• diabetes mellitus
• diabetic neuropathy
• etiology
• growth factor
• homeostasis
• hormone receptors
• insulin
• medicine
• metabolism
• nutrition
• treatment

• Center for Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, USA

  Norbert Freinkel

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