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Hypothalamus

  • 1st Edition, Volume 127 - January 24, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Gerald Litwack
  • Language: English

Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of aut… Read more

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Description

Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

Key features

  • Provides the latest information on Hypothalamus
  • Offers outstanding and original reviews on a range of Hypothalamus research topics
  • Serves as an indispensable reference for researchers and students alike

Readership

Undergraduates, graduates, academics, and researchers

Table of contents

1. Malnourishment during early lactation and alpha msh anorexigenic molecules in hypothalamus
Penha Cristina Barradas

2. Neuropeptides in hypothalamus
Rafael Rodriguez Covenas

3. Distribution of the kisspeptin system and its relation with gonadotropin-releasing hormone in the hypothalamus
Veronica Berta Dorfman

4. Hypothalamic Neural Circuits Regulating Energy Expenditure
Jonathan N. Flak and Rashmita Basu

5. Modulation of Respiration and Hypothalamus
Isato Fukushi

6. Kisspeptin control of hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarian functions
Keerikkattil Paily Joy and Radha Chauve

7. The hypothalamic neuropeptide, QRFP
Stefany Primeaux

8. IKKbeta signaling mediates metabolic changes in hypothalamus
Rana Soylu-Kucharz

9. Functional properties of aged hypothalamic cells
Petr M. Masliukov

10. Morphine reward and deep brain stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus
Esmail Riahi, Mojdeh Fattahi and Milad Rahimpour

11. Orphan G protein-coupled receptor, GPR139, is expressed in the hypothalamus
Licio A. Velloso

12. Melatonin, modulation of hypothalamic activity, and reproduction
Veronica Berta Dorfman

13. The growing complexity of the control of the hypothalamic pituitary thyroid axis and brown adipose tissue by leptin
Virginia Leah Brook

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 127
  • Published: January 24, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Gerald Litwack

Dr. Litwack has authored 3 textbooks on biochemistry and hormones (one with John Wiley & Sons and 2 with Academic Press/Elsevier) and he has edited more than 70 volumes in the Vitamins & Hormones series (Academic Press/Elsevier); he has edited 14 volumes entitled Biochemical Actions of Hormones (Academica Press); He has edited (with David Kritchevsky) Actions of Hormones on Molecular Processes (Academic Press)

Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Founding Chair and Professor, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, United States Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University, United States

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