Vertebrate Endocrinology

Vertebrate Endocrinology represents more than just a treatment of the endocrine system - it integrates hormones with other chemical bioregulatory agents not classically included with the endocrine system. This book provides a complete overview of the endocrine system of vertebrates by first emphasising the mammalian system as the basis of most terminology and understanding of endocrine mechanisms and then applies that to non-mammals. The reader will gain both an understanding of the intricate relationships among all of the body systems and their regulation by hormones and other bioregulators, but also a sense of their development through evolutionary time as well as the roles of hormones at different stages of an animals' life cycle. This edition includes more than 450 full colour, completely redrawn images; Features a companion web site hosting all images from the book as PPT slides and jpeg files; Presents completely updated and revitalised content with new chapters, such as Endocrine Disrupters and Behavioral Endocrinology; Offers new clinical correlation vignettes throughout. For Table of Contents, please click here.

5th Edition. 580 pages. Available as a Hardcover and as an eTextbook (PDF). The PDFs may be purchased as separate chapters at ScienceDirect. Imprint: Academic Press.

ISBN: Hardcover: 978-0-12-394815-1

Price: Hardcover: EUR 71.95; Each chapter: US$31.50