Details

Subject(s)

• Pineal gland [Browse]

Editor

• Reiter, Russel J. [Browse]

Series

Routledge revivals. [More in this series]

Summary note

First published in 1981: This volume talks about new research understandings of the function of the Pineal Gland which was thought to have no legitimate function.

Notes

Includes index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

In English.

Contents

• v. 1. Anatomy and biochemistry.--v. 2. Reproductive effects.--v. 3. Extra-reproductive effects.
• Intro
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Series Preface
• The Editor
• Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1 The Pineal and Reproduction in Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles
• Chapter 2 The Pineal and Reproduction in Birds
• Chapter 3 Reproductive Effects of the Pineal Gland and Pineal Indoles in the Syrian Hamster and the Albino Rat
• Chapter 4 Pineal Involvement in the Photoperiodic Control of Reproduction and Other Functions in the Djungarian Hamster Phodopus Sungorus
• Chapter 5 Melatonin Levels as they Relate to Reproductive Physiology
• Chapter 6 Arginine Vasotocin and Vertebrate Reproduction
• Chapter 7 Other Pineal Peptides and Related Substances
• Physiological Implications for Reproductive Biology
• Chapter 8 Potential Sites of Action of Pineal Hormones within the Neuroendocrine-Reproductive Axis
• Index

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ISBN

• 1-000-08338-1
• 0-429-28093-9

OCLC

1146578490

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