Endocrinology is the science in whose scope lies the organism’s “general staff”—the endocrine glands. Small organs—the thyroid gland, pituitary gland, hypothalamus, adrenal glands, sex glands—producing micro-amounts of biologically active substances—hormones—delicately and precisely direct all processes in our body. This book, written by scientists from the Department of Animal and Human Physiology at Lomonosov Moscow State University, tells entertainingly and competently about the main endocrine glands and the hormones they produce, about how hormones are built and how they work, what diseases malfunctions in them can cause.
Contents:
Chapter 1. From the history of endocrinology
Chapter 2. What hormones are and what they are for
Chapter 3. How hormones are made and how they work
Chapter 4. The nervous and endocrine systems: they cannot do without each other
Chapter 5. About the main endocrine glands and hormones produced by them
Chapter 6. Endocrinology of reproduction
Chapter 7. Tissue hormones
“People’s” questions
Tissue hormones