Pioneers in neuroendocrinology

Descartes against the skeptics

JOSEPH MEITES, BERNARD T. DONOVAN, and SAMUEL M. McCANN (editors), Pioneers in neuroendocrinology, volume II, New York and London, Plenum Press, 1978, 8vo, pp. 422, $39.00. This series of autobiographies continues with twenty-four further essays. The individuals concerned include the three editors, Roger Guillemin, and Solly Zuckerman. These are the second generation of pioneers, whose contribu...

Chemokines as modulators of neuroendocrine functions.

Chemokines are small secreted proteins with chemoattractant properties for immune cells. Besides their role in the immune system, chemokines and their receptors may play important roles in the central nervous system. Neurodegenerative disorders that involve neuroinflammation such as multiple sclerosis, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV-associated dementia are commonly ass...

Old and New Neuroendocrine Molecules: Somatostatin, Cysteamine, Pantethine and Kynurenine.

The aim of this review is to commemorate Hans Selye, endocrinologist, the most famous researchers of stress and to briefly summarize the major features of somatostatin (SST), cysteamine (CysA) and patethine (PAN) in neuroendocrinological aspect, which are closely related to his scientific work. In addition, some metabolites of kynurenine pathway (KP) were also mentioned in this paper, as new, p...

Pioneers in neuroendocrinology

J. LAWRENCE POOL, The Neurological Institute of New York 1909-1974, with personal anecdotes, Lakeville, Conn., Pocket Knife Press for the author, 1975, 8vo, pp. xii, 154, illus., $5.00 (Copies available from the author, Box 31, West Cornwall, Conn. 06796, U.S.A.) The Institute, the first of its kind in America, is now one of the most outstanding centres in the world for the treatment of, and re...

Growth hormones and growth factors in acromegaly and beyond. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Highlights in Basic and Clinical Neuroendocrinology. November 4-5, 2005. Athens, Greece.