Main description:

First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press. The Editorial Board now reflects expertise in the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal structure, physiology, and enzyme mechanisms.

Under the capable and qualified editorial leadership of Dr. Gerald Litwack, Vitamins and Hormones continues to publish cutting-edge reviews of interest to endocrinologists, biochemists, nutritionists, pharmacologists, cell biologists, and molecular biologists. Others interested in the structure and function of biologically active molecules like hormones and vitamins will, as always, turn to this series for comprehensive reviews by leading contributors to this and related disciplines.

This volume focuses on insulin and IGFs.

Contents:

1 Functional Neuronal Processing of Human Body Odors

Johan N. Lundstroem & Mats J. Olsson

2 Female Perception of Male Body Odor

Dr. Mark J. T. Sergeant

3 Current issues in the study of androstenes in human chemosignalling

Jan Havlicek, Alice K. Murray, Tamsin K. Saxton & S. Craig Roberts

4 Mammary odor cues and pheromones: Mammalian infant-directed communication about maternal state, mammae, and milk

Benoist Schaal

5 Exposure to female pheromones during pregnancy causes postpartum anxiety in mice

Caroline M. Larsen, David R. Grattan

6. Major Urinary Protein Regulation of Chemical Communication and Nutrient Metabolism

Yingjiang Zhou and Liangyou Rui

7. Chemosensory Function of the Amygdala

Nicolas Gutierrez-Castellanos, Alino Martinez-Marcos, Fernando Martinez-Garcia, Enrique Lanuza

8. TRPC Channels In Pheromone Sensing

Kirill Kiselyov, Damian B. van Rossum , and Randen L. Patterson

9. Alarm pheromones-Chemical signaling in response to danger

Francois J. Verheggen* ; Eric Haubruge ; Mark C. Mescher

10. Odorant Binding Proteins in Insects

Jiang-Jing Zhou

11. Drosophila CheB proteins Involved in Gustatory Detection of Pheromones are Related to a Human Neurodegeneration Factor

Claudio W. Pikielny

12. Volatile signals during pregnancy.

Stefano Vaglio

13. Olfactory Sensitivity: Functioning in Schizophrenia and Implications for Understanding the Nature and Progression of Psychosis

Warrick J. Brewer & Christos Pantelis

14. Olfactory systems in mate recognition and sexual behaviour

Matthieu Keller, Delphine Pillon & Julie Bakker

15. Communication By Olfactory Signals In Rabbits: Its Role In Reproduction

Angel I. Melo* and Gabriela Gonzalez-Mariscal

16. Chemical Communication And Reproduction In The Gray Short-Tailed Opossum (Monodelphis domestica)

John D. Harder and Leslie M. Jackson

17. Pheromones in a superorganism: from gene to social regulation

Alaux C., Maisonnasse A. & Le Conte Y.

18. Unraveling the pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide (PBAN) signal transduction cascade that regulates sex pheromone production in moths

Shogo Matsumoto, Atsushi Ohnishi , Jae Min Lee , and J. Joe Hull

19. Pheromones In Social Wasps

Bruschini Claudia, Cervo Rita, Turillazzi Stefano

20. New Pheromones and Insect Control Strategies

Gadi V.P. Reddy and Angel Guerrero

21. Pheromones and Exocrine Glands In Isoptera

Ana Maria Costa-Leonardo*, Ives Haifig

22. Aphid Pheromones

Sarah Y. Dewhirst, John A. Pickett and Jim Hardie

23. Methyl Eugenol, Cue-Lure and Fruit Flies

Roger I. Vargas, Todd E. Shelly, Luc Leblanc and Jaime C. Pinero

24. Oviposition Pheromones in Haematophagous Insects

T. Seenivasagan and R. Vijayaraghavan