Molecular Endocrinology of Fish
Academic Press
Published on 23. December 1994
518 pages
978-0-08-058537-6 (ISBN)
Description
Hormones have a manifold impact upon growth and metabolism. This book focuses upon the molecular biology of fish hormones and their regulation. Chapters dealing with gonadotropin, corticotropin, vasotocin, isotocin, somatolactin, and other hormones are written by an international team of fish physiologists and endocrinologists. In addition, there are chapters that survey a growing literature on the ways hormones are regulated both in terms of their actions and in terms of the gene transcription that leads to their formation. The first two sections of the book covers brain and pituitary hormones and the latter two sections are devoted to other hormones and their regulation. As more and more endocrinologists and physiologists seek to use hormones that are inexpensive, provide for more facile experimental replication, and are less subject to cumbersome regulation, they will turn to the sorts of fish models reviewed in this book.
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SECTION I: Brain Hormones Molecular Evolution of Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone and Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone. Corticotropin-Releasing Factors Acting on the Fish Pituitary: Experimental and Molecular Analysis. Expression of the Vasotocin/Isotocin Gene Family in Fish. SECTION II: Pituitary Hormone Control of Teleost Gonadotropin Gene Expression. The Somatolactin Gene. Structure and Evolution of Fish Growth Hormone and Insulinlike Growth Factor Genes. SECTION III: Other Hormones Structure and Expression of Insulinlike Growth Factor Genes in Fish. Molecular Aspects of Pancreatic Peptides. The Molecular Biology of the Corpuscles of Stannius and Regulation of Stanniocalcin Gene Expression. SECTION IV: Hormone Regulation Comparative Aspects of Pituitary Development and Pit-1 Function. Structure and Regulation of Genes for Estrogen Receptors. Prolactin Receptors. Regulation of Oocyte Maturation in Fish.Author Index. Systematic Index. Subject Index.
