Endocrine Aspects of Homeostasis

Endocrine aspects of anovulation.

Sunnmary Endocrine features of anovulation are reviewed, with particular emphasis on methods of investigation. The value of, and indications for, measurements of serum gonadotrophin concentrations are discussed: it appears that FSH measurements allow better discrimination than LH measurements in diagnosing patients with primary ovarian failure. The results of stimulation tests with the syntheti...

Functional and Molecular Aspects of Glucocorticoids in the Endocrine Pancreas and Glucose Homeostasis

Endocrine Aspects of Disease Processes

and so are involved in food webs." "We are the host and the starting point, however unwillingly or unwittingly, of a variety of parasitic food chains." "Man can still climb trees but is almost exclusively terrestrial." Isolite size and breeding behavior, ecological efficiency and energy transfer are discussed, as are gestation, periods of nursing, infant mortality among recently weaned children...

Ocular aspects of endocrine exophthalmos.

UNDER the heading "endocrine exophthalmos" we may consider on the one hand thyrotoxic exophthalmos and on the other the condition which has been designated exophthalmic ophthalmoplegia, malignant exophthalmos, thyrotropic exophthalmos, and also as a hyperophthalmopathic form of Graves's disease (Means, 1945). As Wybar (1956) has emphasized, the separation of endocrine exophthalmos into the thyr...

Endocrine Aspects of Prostate Cancer