The only reference of its kind, the Dictionary of Endocrinology and Related
Biomedical Sciences provides over 14,000 total entries. Comprehensive
descriptions of more than 200 hormones, neurotransmitters, growth factors, and
related regulators include information on the chemical structures and the
pathways for their biosynthesis, sequestration, release, and degradation, as
well as on physiological functions, mechanisms of action, receptor subtypes,
response elements, agonists and antagonists, feedback controls, diseases
resulting from dysfunctions, and the actions and side-effects of therapeutic
agents. Additional citations relate to genes involved in or affecting the
functions, associated metabolic pathways, species and age-related changes in
responses, and procedures for investigating the regulators With information
drawn from the most