Hormones and the Endocrine System: Textbook of Endocrinology

by Bernhard Kleine and Winfried G. Rossmanith

Book Overview

This book focuses on hormones, and on how they are produced in very diverse regions of the body in humans and animals. But hormones can be found not only in vertebrates, but also in insects, shellfish, spiders, mollusks, even at the origin of metazoan diversification and exhibit the same pathways of synthesis. The book addresses the different classes of hormones: protein/peptides hormones, steroids and juvenile hormones and hormones like catecholamines,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319792121
• ISBN13: 9783319792125
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 437 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"