José R. Lemos - Neurosecretion: Secretory Mechanisms

Masterclass in Neuroendocrinology is a co-publication of the INF (International Neuroendocrine Federation) that aims to illustrate the highest standards and promote the use of the latest technologies in basic and clinical research, while also providing inspiration for further exploration into the exciting field of neuroendocrinology. It is intended for established researchers, trainees and students alike. is a co-publication of the INF (International Neuroendocrine Federation) that aims to illustrate the highest standards and promote the use of the latest technologies in basic and clinical research, while also providing inspiration for further exploration into the exciting field of neuroendocrinology. It is intended for established researchers, trainees and students alike.

Each book

Founding Series Co-Editors: William E. Armstrong and John A. Russell

- includes assessments of different experimental approaches, both in vivo and in vitro, and of how the resulting data are interpreted.

Founding Series Co-Editors: William E. Armstrong and John A. Russell

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15770

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This series began publication as a joint venture between the International Neuroendocrine Federation and Wiley-Blackwell and now is continuing with Springer-Nature as publisher for the federation. The broad aim of the series is to provide established researchers, trainees, and students with authoritative up-to-date accounts of the present state of knowledge and prospects for the future across a range of topics in the burgeoning field of neuroendocrinology. The series is aimed at a wide audience as neuroendocrinology integrates neuroscience and endocrinology. We define neuroendocrinology as the study of the control of endocrine function by the brain and the actions of hormones on the brain. It encompasses the study of normal and abnormal function and the developmental origins of disease. It includes the study of the neural networks in the brain that regulate and form neuroendocrine systems. It also includes the study of behaviors and mental states that are influenced or regulated by hormones. It necessarily includes the understanding and study of peripheral physiological systems that are regulated by neuroendocrine mechanisms. Clearly, neuroendocrinology embraces many current issues of concern to human health and well-being, but research on these issues necessitates reductionist animal models.

Contemporary research in neuroendocrinology involves the use of a wide range of techniques and technologies, from the subcellular to systems at the whole-organism level. A particular aim of the series is to provide expert advice and discussion about experimental or study protocols in research in neuroendocrinology and to further advance the field by giving information and advice about novel techniques, technologies, and interdisciplinary approaches.

To achieve our aims each book is on a particular theme in neuroendocrinology, and for each book, we have recruited a pair of editors, expert in the field, and they have engaged an international team of experts to contribute chapters in their individual areas of expertise. Their mission was to give an update of knowledge and recent discoveries, to discuss new approaches, gold-standard protocols, translational possibilities, and future prospects. Authors were asked to write for a wide audience, to minimize references, and to consider the use of video clips and explanatory text boxes; each chapter is peer reviewed and has a Glossary and a detailed Index. We have been guided by an Advisory Editorial Board.

The Masterclass Series is open-ended; books in the series published to date are Neurophysiology of Neuroendocrine Neurons (2014, ed. WE Armstrong & JG Tasker); Neuroendocrinology of Stress (2015, ed. JA Russell & MJ Shipston); Molecular Neuroendocrinology: From Genome to Physiology (2016, ed. D Murphy & H Gainer); Computational Neuroendocrinology (2016, ed. DJ Macgregor & G Leng); Neuroendocrinology of Appetite (2016, ed. SL Dickson & JG Mercer); The GnRH Neuron and its Control (2018. ed. AE Herbison & TM Plant); and Model Animals in Neuroendocrinology (2019, ed. M Ludwig and G Levkowitz). This book, Neurosecretion: Secretory Mechanisms (edited by JR Lemos and G Dayanithi), is #8 in the Series and the first to be published by Springer-Nature