(PDF) Cellular Endocrinology in Health and Disease by Alfredo Ulloa-Aguirre

This is the PDF eBook version for Cellular Endocrinology in Health and Disease by Alfredo Ulloa-Aguirre, P. Michael Conn

Table of Contents

1. Thyroid hormone receptors and their role in cell proliferation and cancer” 2. The molecular cell biology of anterior pituitary cells 3. Sensing calcium levels -the biology of the parathyroid cell 4. The biology of pituitary stem cells 5. The Na( )/I(-) symporter and biosynthesis of thyroid hormones 6. The FSH signaling network in Sertoli cells 7. Epigenetics and pituitary cell growth 8. Epigenetics and metabolic abnormalities 9. Unraveling the mechanisms underlying GnRH pulse generation: test of the proposed role for KNDy neurons 10. Proteomics and Cellular Signaling 11. Transcriptome analysis of adrenocortical cells in health and disease 12. Bone as an endocrine organ 13. The control of steroidogenesis of adrenocortical cells 14. The adipocyte as endocrine target 15. Insulin secreting cell lines: potential for research and diabetes therapy 16. The architecture of human pancreatic islets as revealed by molecular imaging 17. Computational models to decipher cell signaling pathways 18. The regulation of theca cell-granulosa cell dialogue by endocrine and paracrine factors 19. Unraveling the mechanism of action of the GnRH pulse generator: the TAC3/TAC3R-dinorphin-Kiss1/Kiss1R neuronal connection 20. Endocrinology of the single cell 21. Altering aberrant intracellular trafficking of cell surface membrane receptors by pharmacological chaperones 22. Deiodinases: taylors that suit intracellular thyronine demands 23. Micro RNAs and non-coding RNAs in beta-cell function