Functional Endocrinology

Functional Endocrinology from Birth through Adolescence

Several editions of this Journal exist and those commonly available are the later ones. The importance of this first edition lies in its timing. Within a year of his return from this voyage, Darwin, then in chronic ill health, had begun notes on The Origin of Species. By 1842 he had made a 35-page summary of his ideas; and his 230-page manuscript of 1844 contains all the essentials of his final...

IMAGING IN ENDOCRINOLOGY: The use of functional MRI to study the endocrinology of appetite.

In the present review article, we summarise current thinking about the neuroendocrinology of appetite and feeding behaviour. We discuss how the homeostatic control of energy balance, wherein the hypothalamus orchestrates food intake and energy expenditure in response to peripheral signals about nutritional status, can be easily overridden by the powerful reward value of food. We focus on how fu...

Integrated Endocrinology Integrated Endocrinology

Physiology and Endocrinology: Reproductive Endocrinology

The aim of the present study was to investigate the endocrinology of periestrus period and the days after until estrus in ewes (n = 40) synchronized out of breeding season and diagnosing the related pregnancies after laparoscopic insemination comparing to different doses of PMSG that was used. Animals treated for 12 d with CIDR followed by administration with different doses (0, 450, 550, 650, ...

Endocrinology

Eureka book series are designed for comprehensive teaching from basic biomedical science to clinical skills. The target audience, are medical students from first year to qualification. The 3 authors of this book are all endocrine consultants at their hospitals who have been involved in teaching endocrinology to students and registrars. The book contains 13 chapters starting from basic science, ...