Published December, 2011
By Margo P. Cohen and Piero P. Foa
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Endocrinology and Metabolism
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Endocrinology and Metabolism: Progress in Research and Clinical Prac tice is a new series that has been designed to present timely, critical reviews of constantly evolving fields;

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Published December, 2011
By Gabriella Castoria and Antimo Migliaccio
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Breast and prostate cancers are both hormone-dependent, at least in some stages of their progression. The immediate challenge is the dissection of key events regulating the steroid response of target tissues to prevent progression and improve treatment of breast and prostate cancers.

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Published December, 2011
By J. C. Brown
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Monographs on Endocrinology
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Dr. Raymond Pederson, Dr. Jill Dryburgh and I commenced work on GIP in 1968, when, with the generous help of Professor Viktor Mutt and Professor Erik Jorpes of the Karolinska Inst,itute, Stockholm, we were able to establish that there existed an inhibitory material for acid secretion in cholecystokinin-pancreozymin prepara tions.

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Published December, 2011
By Mark L. Howe, Michael J. Stones and Charles J. Brainerd
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For example, because changes in cognitive functioning co-occur with other dramatic changes in (motoric) response capacities, it is unclear how one can effec tively study changes in the ability to cognize independent of changes in the very mechanisms (ability to execute motor sequences) so often used to index cognitive performance.

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Published December, 2011
By Pedro Cuatrecasas, Steven Jacobs, J. Avruch, J.J. Bahl, D. Brandenburg, R. Bressler, P. Cuatrecasas, U. Derewenda, Z.S. Derewenda, G.G. Dodson, W.J. Malaisse, M.D. Walker, W.C. Duckworth, I.D. Goldfine, J.R. Gunsalus, M.D. Hollenberg, R.E. Hubbard, S. Jacobs, C.R. Kahn, T. Kono, J.M. Kyriakis, J. Larner, J.R. Levy, R.A. Liddle, J.L. Messina, J.M. Olefsky, D.J. Price, R.A. Roth, P. Rothenberg, R.J. Rushakoff, A.R. Saltiel, D.F. Steiner, H.S. Tager, H.E. Tornqvist, M.F. White, J.A. Williams, E.J. Yurkow and K. Zierler
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
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It is fourteen years since insulin was last reviewed in The Handbook of Ex perimental Pharmacology, in volume 32. We therefore decided to limit the present volume to the following areas: insulin chemistry and structure, insulin biosynthesis and secretion, insulin receptor, and insulin action at the cellular level.

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Published December, 2011
By F. Cavalli
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: ESO Monographs
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Published December, 2011
By Thomas Dyrberg
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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It is worth noting that while addressing the hypothesis of the role of class II major histocompatibility glycoproteins in autoimmune diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes, IDDM) a number of investigators established animal models in which class II molecules were expressed under the control of the rat insulin promoter.

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Published December, 2011
By Aron Goldhirsch
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: ESO Monographs
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Published December, 2011
By P. Mauvais-Jarvis, F. Kuttenn and I. Mowszowicz
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Monographs on Endocrinology
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Plasma androgen assay, free testosterone measurement, hepatic and extrahepatic androgen metabolic clearance and androgen metabolism in the skin are the different steps which were studied by many groups and represent valuable parameters of the mechanisms of hirsutism.

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Published December, 2011
By A.E. Schindler
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Monographs on Endocrinology
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This monograph represents the first comprehensive review of hormones in human amniotic fluid and includes data published up to and including 1980. Methods of Isolation and Identification of Steroids in Human Amniotic Fluid 6 I. C , C , and C Steroids .

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