1Department of Nuclear Medicine, La Timone University Hospital, CERIMED, Aix-Marseille Univ, Marseille, France. 2Cancer Imaging and Neuroendocrine Tumour Service, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia. The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. 3Section on Medical Neuroendocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of C...

Claudio Carere1,2), Piet J. Drent3), Jaap M. Koolhaas4) & Ton G.G. Groothuis1,5) (1 Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 2 Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Behavioural Neuroendocrinology Research Group, University of Liege, Belgium; 3 Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Center for Terrestrial Ecology, Heteren, The Netherlands; 4 Department of An...

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...

Clustering of proteins in higher order complexes is a common theme in biology and profoundly influences protein function. The idea that seven-transmembrane spanning G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) might form dimers or higher order oligomeric complexes has been formulated more than 20 years ago. Since then, this phenomenon has been investigated with many different biochemical and biophysical...

This introduction to the themed issue on Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the study of personality provides an overview of conceptual, theoretical and methodological progress in research on animal personalities over the last decade, and places the contributions to this volume in context. The issue has three main goals. First, we aimed to bring together theoreticians to contribute to th...

The discovery of steroid hormone receptors in brain regions that mediate every aspect of brain function has broadened the definition of 'neuroendocrinology' to include the reciprocal communication between the brain and the body via hormonal and neural pathways. The brain is the central organ of stress and adaptation to stress because it perceives and determines what is threatening, as well as t...