Table of Contents

Part 1 General characteristics of neuropeptides: the neuropeptide concept and the evolution of neuropeptides; methods of studying neuropeptides; biosynthesis, processing, secretion and inactivation of neuropeptides; distribution and localization of neuropeptides; the neuroendocrine system and the transport of neuropeptides; neuropeptide receptors as regulators of cellular functions; neuropeptides as neurotransmitters, neuromodulators and neurohormones; neuropeptides, stress and the immune system. Part 2 Neuropeptide families - the regulatory role of neuropeptides: characteristics of hypothalamic regulatory neuropeptides; hypophysiotropic neuropeptides - TRH, CRH, GnRH, GHRH, SS, PACAP, DSIP; hypothalamic-neurohypophyseal hormones - VP and OT; anterior pituitary neuropeptides 1 - the POMC-derived neuropeptides - ACTH, MSH, -LPH, -EP; anterior pituitary neuropeptides 2 - the glycoprotein and growth hormone families - secretoneurin; endogenous opiate neuropeptides - endorphins, enkephalins, dynorphins, Tyr-MIF-1 and nociceptin; tachykinins - substance P, neurokinin A and neurokinin B; gut and brain neuropeptides 1 -neuropeptide families - gastrin/CCK, VIP/secretin/glucagon, PP/PYY/NPY, BN/GRP; gut and brain neuropeptides 2 - insulin, galanin, motilin, CGRP, neurotensin; cardiac, renal, parathyroid and thyroid neuropeptides - ANH, AT, Ct, PTH, PTH-rP, T3, T4; invertebrate neuropeptides.

Promotional Information

This book will clearly be considered the bible of the neuroendocrine field. -- Frank Antonawich, Department of Neurology, State University of New York at Stony Brook This book is a magnificent review of this fascinating subject. Strand presents a wealth of data in a very comprehensive manner. She has summarized the information in a scholarly yet highly comprehensible, lucid way. -- D. de Wied, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Medical Pharmacology, Rudolf Magnus Institute for Neurosciences

Reviews

Strand has defined the major body of knowledge that makes a basis for a textbook on neuropeptides.
*Regulatory Peptides*

This book is a superb compilation of the complexities of the fields of neuropeptides.
*Neurosurgery Quarterly*

...[This] book is a coherent and readable volume that provides a great deal of valuable information.
*Trends in Neuroscience*