Fish Endocrinology - 9781578083183

With the recent advances in molecular biology, cell biology, physiology and behavior, the contributors of these 24 papers are making significant progress in understanding the endocrine functions of a number of species of fish. Topics include insulin and insulin-like growth factors, with papers on insulin metabolic effects in fish tissues, non-radioisotropic immunoassay for fish insulin, insulin-like growth factor I and II, insulin and IGF receptors and insulin-like growth facto binding proteins; in the gastro-entero-pancreatic (GEP) system researchers describe new techniques to examine the endocrine pancreas of the African lungfish, glucagon and related compounds and the development of the GEP system of teleosts; in pituitary development, hormones and functions they are studying teleost adenhypophysis, melancortin, endorphin and melanin-concentrating hormones, the osmoregulatory action of hypophyseal hormones in teleosts, a fish model for a fundamental sensory modality in osmoreception,; natriuretic peptides, cardiac nitric oxide signaling, myotropic hormones; the pineal organ; and stress response, reproduction and endocrine disruptors. Distributed in the US by Enfield. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)