Vassopressin, Volume 111, the latest release in the Vitamins and Hormones series, first published in 1943, covers the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal structure, physiology and enzyme mechanisms, with this release focusing on topics relating to hepcidin, bacterial infection, and iron overload, the role of heparan sulfates in hepcidin regulation, hepcidin CDNA and human gene sex hormones, growth factors and hepcidin, HFE gene polymorphisms and hereditary hemochromatosis, hepcidin and il-1beta, hepcidin-ferroportin axis, cardiomyocyte hepcidin, adipocyte iron, leptin and hepcidin, regulators of hepcidin expression, and much more.
1. Cover image - p. iv 2. Title page - p. iv 3. Table of Contents - p. iv 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Former Editors - p. v 6. Contributors - p. xiii 7. Preface - p. xvii 8. Chapter One: Evolution of proopiomelanocortin - p. xviii 9. Chapter Two: Structure and dynamics of dynorphin peptide and its receptor - p. 16 10. Chapter Three: Molecular aspects of delta opioid receptors - p. 47 11. Chapter Four: The role of heat shock protein 90 in regulating pain, opioid signaling, and opioid antinociception - p. 90 12. Chapter Five: Enkephalinase regulation - p. 103 13. Chapter Six: Limbic circuit connectivity and the stress response: New insights into the mammalian nociceptin peptide system - p. 129 14. Chapter Seven: Enkephalins and ACTH in the mammalian nervous system - p. 145 15. Chapter Eight: Opioids and the hormone oxytocin - p. 193 16. Chapter Nine: Estrogens as arbiters of sex-specific and reproductive cycle-dependent opioid analgesic mechanisms - p. 225 17. Chapter Ten: Opioids and reproduction - p. 246 18. Chapter Eleven: Kappa opioid receptor and oligodendrocyte remyelination - p. 279 19. Chapter Twelve: Inhibitory role of Gi-coupled receptors on cAMP-driven cancers with focus on opioid receptors in lung adenocarcinoma and its stem cells - p. 297 20. Chapter Thirteen: Prenatal ethanol exposure and enkephalinergic neurotransmission - p. 311
Vassopressin, Volume 111, the latest release in the Vitamins and Hormones series, first published in 1943, covers the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal structure, physiology and enzyme mechanisms, with this release focusing on topics relating to hepcidin, bacterial infection, and iron overload, the role of heparan sulfates in hepcidin regulation, hepcidin CDNA and human gene sex hormones, growth factors and hepcidin, HFE gene polymorphisms and hereditary hemochromatosis, hepcidin and il-1beta, hepcidin-ferroportin axis, cardiomyocyte hepcidin, adipocyte iron, leptin and hepcidin, regulators of hepcidin expression, and much more.
1. Cover image - p. iv 2. Title page - p. iv 3. Table of Contents - p. iv 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Former Editors - p. v 6. Contributors - p. xiii 7. Preface - p. xvii 8. Chapter One: Evolution of proopiomelanocortin - p. xviii 9. Chapter Two: Structure and dynamics of dynorphin peptide and its receptor - p. 16 10. Chapter Three: Molecular aspects of delta opioid receptors - p. 47 11. Chapter Four: The role of heat shock protein 90 in regulating pain, opioid signaling, and opioid antinociception - p. 90 12. Chapter Five: Enkephalinase regulation - p. 103 13. Chapter Six: Limbic circuit connectivity and the stress response: New insights into the mammalian nociceptin peptide system - p. 129 14. Chapter Seven: Enkephalins and ACTH in the mammalian nervous system - p. 145 15. Chapter Eight: Opioids and the hormone oxytocin - p. 193 16. Chapter Nine: Estrogens as arbiters of sex-specific and reproductive cycle-dependent opioid analgesic mechanisms - p. 225 17. Chapter Ten: Opioids and reproduction - p. 246 18. Chapter Eleven: Kappa opioid receptor and oligodendrocyte remyelination - p. 279 19. Chapter Twelve: Inhibitory role of Gi-coupled receptors on cAMP-driven cancers with focus on opioid receptors in lung adenocarcinoma and its stem cells - p. 297 20. Chapter Thirteen: Prenatal ethanol exposure and enkephalinergic neurotransmission - p. 311
