Preface
Section I. Introduction
1. The Concept of Humoral Control of Body Function and Its
Significiance to the Development of Physiology
C. McC. Brooks
Section II. The Development of Endocrinology
2. The Beginnings of Endocrinology and the Discovery of Digestive
System Hormones
C. McC. Brooks
3. Hormones and the Metabolic Processes of the Body
The Pancreas, Adrenals, Thyroid, Parathyroids, Thymus, and Pineal
J.L. Gilbert
4. Trophic Hormones and Interactions Within the Endocrine System
The Hypophysis and the Gonads
H.A. Levey
Section III. Chemical Transmission of Neuronal Activity
5. Chemical Mediation of the Neural Control of Peripheral Organs
and the Humoral Transmission of Mediators
C. McC. Brooks
6. Central Action of Transmitters and the Question of Chemical
Transmission at the Central Synapse
D. R. Curtis
Section IV. The Central Nervous System and
Humoral Control of Body Function
7. Central Nervous System Control of Endocrine and Other Secretory
Processes by Peripheral Nerves
C. McC. Brooks
8. Hypothalamic and Central Nervous System Control of the Endocrine
Glands
C. McC. Brooks
Conclusion
C. McC. Brooks
Indexes
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