Endorphins in Reproduction and Stress

ISBN-13: 9783540527367 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 134 str.

Wolfgang Distler; Lutwin Beck

Opis

Reviews studies on the opioidergic control mechanisms in reproduction and stress physiology, and explores the clinical implications of this research. The contributors suggest that endorphins and other opioids are a link between reproductive functions and stress adaptations of the human organism.

Spis treści

Opioids and Endocrine Secretion.- Opioid Control of Gonadotropin Secretion.- Neurochemical Regulation of the LHRH Pulse Generator (With 8 Figures).- CRH Inhibition of Gonadotropin and Oxytocin Release: Role of Endogenous Opioids.- Differential Role of ?- and ?-Opiate Receptors in Anterior Pituitary Hormone Secretion (With 3 Figures).- Peripheral Opioid Secretion.- Paracrine Control of Testicular Function: Role of Opioids (With 2 Figures).- Role of ?-Endorphin in the Ovary: In Vitro Studies of Porcine Ovaries and Individual Follicles (With 7 Figures).- Human Plasma ?-Endorphin Levels in Pregnant Women and in Newborns (With 1 Figure).- Stress and Opioids.- Opioid Peptides and Stress: The Sympathetic Nervous System and Pituitary-Adrenal Axis (With 3 Figures).- Vasopressin: An Integrator of Proopiomelanocortin Activity in Brain and Pituitary (With 5 Figures).- ?-Endorphin Immunoreactive Material in the Plasma: What Does It Mean?.- Response of Plasma Endorphins to Physical Exercise in Eumenorrheic and Amenorrheic Female Athletes (With 3 Figures).- Opioidergic Control of the Pituitary-Adrenal Axis (With 5 Figures).- Effects of ?-Endorphin on Adrenocortical Steroid Secretion (With 4 Figures).- Effects of Blood-Borne Endorphin and Other POMC-Derived Peptides on Brain Functions in Man (With 3 Figures).

O autorze

Wolfgang Distler ist an der Klinik und Poliklinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus an der Technischen Universität Dresden tätig.