About this Book
Handbook of Hormones: Comparative Endocrinology for Basic and Clinical Research is a convenient and comprehensive catalog of hormones for the benefit of all professionals in biomedical sciences as well as undergraduate and graduate students in biology, medicine, and related fields. This handbook is a unique resource that concisely provides basic but important information on the structure and function of hormones across vertebrate and invertebrate phyla from the comparative viewpoint. It offers rapid and easy access to important and indispensable knowledge about the hormones and their receptors, including chemical and molecular structures, intracellular signaling pathways, and biological actions. Readers will find simple and visual ways to extract key, up-to-date information on hormone families. Online ancillary resources, together with the main text, integrate additional information, further providing molecular and functional considerations from an evolutionary perspective.
Key Features
- Covers a wide range of comprehensive information on hormone action from basic biology to clinical medicine
- Includes comparative information on the structures and functions of hormones in vertebrates and invertebrates, enabling readers to understand both general and specific actions in and across species
- Presents hormones based on familial relationships, so that readers can easily understand the evolutionary history of hormones and receptors
- Collects more than 210 hormones and 42 groups/families including recently identified hormones and their families
- Ancillary website hosts additional information, including sequence data in various vertebrate and invertebrate species, phylogenetic trees, figures, and tables
Produced in association with the Japan Society for Comparative Endocrinology