Brain Neurosecretory Cytokines
Subtitle: Immune Response and Neuronal Survival
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780306483370
Subjects: Oncology; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Biochemistry; Neuroscience; Medical / Neuroscience; Medical : Biochemistry; Neurology - General; Cytokines; Neurohormones; Neurons; Neuropeptides; Physiological effect
First sentence: Discovery of neuroendocrine cells of hypothalamus nuclei, N. Paraventricularis (NPV) and N. Supraopticus (NSO)1, elucidation of vasopressin and oxytocin primary structure2 in the fifties as well as isolation and chemical identification of releasing hormones3,4 can be considered as the foundation of modern molecular neuroendocrinology and neurochemistry of biological active peptides and proteins of hypothalamus-neurohypophysial system.