Vitamins and Hormones

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-12-709866-1
Verlag: ACADEMIC PR INC

Buch, Englisch, Band 66, 611 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1007 g

Reihe: Vitamins and Hormones

First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press. In the early days of the Serial, the subjects of vitamins and hormones were quite distinct. The Editorial Board now reflects expertise in the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal structure, physiology, and enzyme mechanisms. Under the capable and qualified editorial leadership of Dr. Gerald Litwack, Vitamins and Hormones continues to publish cutting-edge reviews of interest to endocrinologists, biochemists, nutritionists, pharmacologists, cell biologists, and molecular biologists. Others interested in the structure and function of biologically active molecules like hormones and vitamins will, as always, turn to this series for comprehensive reviews by leading contributors to this and related disciplines.

Zielgruppe

Researchers, professors, and graduate students studying the molecular and cellular biology of vitamins, hormones, and related factors and co-factors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Litwack, Gerald

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Zellbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Molekularbiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie, Toxikologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierphysiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Endokrinologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biochemie (nichtmedizinisch)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Molecular Biology of Hematopoietic Stem CellsAldosterone: Its Receptor, Target Genes and ActionsCorticosteroid Receptors, 11beta-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase and the HeartForms of Mineralocorticoid HypertensionPPARs and Cardiovascular SystemSerotonin and the Neuroendocrine Regulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Health and DiseaseThe Thymosins: Prothymosin alpha, Parathymosin, and Beta-Thymosins- Structure and FunctionThymosin-Beta4 InteractionsPolypeptide Hormones: Signaling Molecules in PlantsParathyroid Hormone-related Protein (PTHrP): A Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling Protein with Distinct Paracrine, and Intracrine RolesNGF-Dependent Regulation of NADE-Induced ApoptosisMembrane Transport of FolatesVitamin A and Infancy: Biochemical, Functional and Clinical Aspects

Über Autor(innen)

Litwack, Gerald
Dr. Litwack has authored 3 textbooks on biochemistry and hormones (one with John Wiley & Sons and 2 with Academic Press/Elsevier) and he has edited more than 70 volumes in the Vitamins & Hormones series (Academic Press/Elsevier); he has edited 14 volumes entitled Biochemical Actions of Hormones (Academica Press); He has edited (with David Kritchevsky) Actions of Hormones on Molecular Processes (Academic Press)

Trained in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dr. Litwack worked on enzymology and the effects of hormones on enzyme systems. Then he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at the Biochemical Institute of the Sorbonne in Paris. Dr. Litwack's first position was as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Rutgers University in 1954. Six years later, he joined the University of Pennsylvania as associate professor and four years later went to the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, as full professor, eventually becoming Deputy Director of the Institute. In 1991, he accepted the Chair of Pharmacology at Thomas Jefferson University where he is also Deputy Director of the Jefferson Cancer Institute and Associate Director for Basic Science in the Jefferson Cancer Center. Dr. Litwack's work has been in the area of mechanisms of steroid receptor action involving especially the glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors, immunophi.