Opioid Hormones

Provides cutting-edge reviews of vitamins and hormones of interest to endocrinologists, biochemists, nutritionists, pharmacologists, cell biologists and molecular biologists

Gerald Litwack (Edited by)

9780128188583

Hardback, published 13 August 2019

355 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.5 cm, 0.7 kg

Approx.337 pages

1. Evolution of proopiomelanocortinAna Rocha, Alejandra Godino-Gimeno and José Miguel Cerdá-Reverter2. Structure and dynamics of dynorphin peptide and its receptorGuillaume Ferré, Georges Czaplicki, Pascal Demange and Alain Milon3. Molecular aspects of delta opioid receptorsLouis Gendron, Karim Nagi, Manel Zeghal, Patrick M. Giguère and Graciela Pineyro4. The role of heat shock protein 90 in regulating pain, opioid signaling, and opioid antinociceptionJohn M. Streicher5. Enkephalinase regulationM. Ramírez-Sánchez, I. Prieto, A.B. Segarra, M. Martínez-Cañamero, I. Banegas and M. de Gasparo6. Limbic circuit connectivity and the stress response: New insights into the mammalian nociceptin peptide systemAllison Jane Fulford and Sarah Keskes7. Enkephalins and ACTH in the mammalian nervous systemEwing Duque-Díaz, Olga Alvarez-Ojeda and Rafael Coveñas8. Opioids and the hormone oxytocinLeda Kovatsi and Kakia Nikolaou9. Estrogens as arbiters of sex-specific and reproductive cycle-dependent opioid mechanismsAlan R Gintzler, Emiliya M. Storman and Nai-Jiang Liu10. Opioids and reproductionBeata Seeber, Bettina Böttcher, Elisabeth D´Costa and Ludwig Wildt11. Kappa opioid receptor and oligodendrocyte remyelinationFei Wang and Feng Mei12. Inhibitory role of G_i-coupled receptors on cAMP-driven cancers with focus on opioid receptors in lung adenocarcinoma and its stem cellsHildegard M. Schuller13. Prenatal ethanol exposure and enkephalinergic neurotransmissionMilagros Méndez, Karla Hernández-Fonseca and Paula Abate

Subject Areas: Biochemistry [PSB], Endocrinology [MJG]