Steroid hormones and tumour growth and steroid hormones and enzymes
By: General editor for the Ciba Foundation: G. E. W. Wolstenholme, assisted by Margaret P. Cameron
Publisher: Churchill
Published: 1952
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Endocrine Glands; Steroids; Neoplasms; Experimental Neoplasms; Enzymes; Congresses; Tumors; Endocrine glands
Other titles: Steroid hormones and enzymes.
Notes: Proceedings of the Conference on Steroid Hormones and Tumour Growth, London, 1950, and the Conference on Steroid Hormones and Enzymes, London, 1950.

Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Steroids in relation to cancer from the chemical aspect / C.W. Shoppee; title: The role of dietary trace factors in hormone-induced tissue growth / R. Hertz; title: The influence of the male and female sex hormones on the development of lymphoid tumours in mice / E.S. Horning and L. Dmochowski; title: Steroid hormones and prostatic cancer in mice / E.S. Horning; title: Carcinogenic activity of sterols / I. Hieger; title: The effect of steroid hormones on experimental pituitary and gonadal tumorigenesis / W.U. Gardner; title: Some effects of steroids on the mammary gland / S.J. Folley; title: Le rôle des hormones steroïdes dans la croissance normale et pathologique de la glande mammaire / A. Chamorro; title: The effect of steroids on the incidence of mammary tumours in mice / O. Mühlbock; title: Hormonal responses of mammary tumours in mice / L.F. Foulds; title: Anti-tumour activities of steroids in animals / C. Chester Stock; title: The anti-androgenic control of human cancer / C. Huggins; title: ^; title: Administration of massive dosage of oestrogen to breast and prostatic cancer patients : blood levels attained / W.W. Tullner, J.P. Young and R. Hertz; title: The modification of tumour-host relations by steroid hormones / B.W. Begg; title: Steroid hormones and cancer / K. Dobriner; title: ACTH and cortisone in acute leukaemia in children / J.H. Burchenal; title: Adrenal function and steroid excretion in neoplastic disease / K. Dobriner; title: Assay, activity and purification of [beta]-glucuronidase / W.H. Fishman; title: The nature, properties and function of [beta]-glucuronidase / G.T. Mills; title: On the mechanism of synthesis of conjugated glucuronides / I.D.E. Storey; title: The metabolism and excretion of synthetic oestrogens, with special reference to the formation of the glycuronides / D.H. Curnow and E.C. Dodds; title: The effects of hormones on [beta]-glucuronidase activity / W.H. Fishman; title: Enzymes in the corpora lutea of the rat during pregnancy and lactation / B.K. Meyer; title: Enzymes in the placentoma of the rat / R.K. Meyer; title: The effects on enzymes of androgens and growth hormone / Charles D. Kochakian; title: Comparison of [beta]-glucuronidase activity in tissue of foetal, new-born, and infant animals with those of the mother mouse, dog, and human) / W.H. Fishman; title: Relation of glucuronidase to action of gonadal hormones / R.K. Meyer; title: The growth inhibiting action of cancer producing substances in relation to hormonal control of protein and carbohydrate metabolism / L.A. Elson; title: The effects on enzymes of adrenal cortex, diet, oestrogens, and experimental diabetes / Charles D. Kochakian; title: Tissue arginase in relation to the adrenal cortex and diabetes / A.L. Greenbaum; title: Succinic dehydrogenase and anaerobic glycolysis in the livers of diabetic lactating rats / R.K. Meyer.