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Date_TXT

New York : Academic press , 1969

Cote

597 HOA/T2

Auteur

Hoar W. S

Sujet

Physiologie ; Poissons

Type de document

Livre

Description :

The endocrinology of fishes is considered in Volume II. Few fields of animal physiology have expanded more rapidly during the past decade.
The publication in 1957 of "The Physiology of the Pituitary Gland of Fishes" (New York Zoological Society) by Grace E. Pickford and J. W. Atz provided a detailed bibliography and review of all the significant earlier work on the endocrinology of fishes; the authors of this comprehensive book dealt not only with the pituitary but with other endocrine systems related to it. The intervening years have seen intense research in fish endocrinology, resulting in numerous monographs and reviews devoted to particular subjects and increasing numbers of fish papers in General and Comparative Endocrinology which first appeared in 1961. New factors, such as some of the neurohypophysial hormones, have been discovered in previously known endocrine organs; additional functions, such as those of prolactin, have been described for previously known hormones; new hormones, such as calcitonin, have been recognized in tissues (the ultimobranchial glands) which only a decade ago were not accepted as endocrine organs. This has been an exciting period in comparative endocrinology, and the aquatic vertebrates with their vast range of specialized functions have held the key to several significant discoveries-particularly those of phylogenetic interest.
Volume II:
1-The Pituitary Gland: Anatomy and Histophysiology
2-The neurohypophysis
3-Prolactin (Fish Prolactin or Paralactin) and Growth Hormone
4-Thyroid Function and Its Control in Fishes
5-The Endocrine Pancreas
6-The Adrenocortical Steroids, Adrenocorticotropin and the Corpuscles of Stannius
7-The Ultimobranchial Glands and Calcium Regulation
8-Urophysis and Caudal Neurosecretory System.