Neurobiology: Current Comparative Approaches

✍ Scribed by H. H. Swanson (auth.), Professor Dr. Raymond Gilles, Dr. Jacques Balthazart (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 425
• Series: Proceedings in Life Sciences
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is one of those published from the proceedings of the invited lectures to the First International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry I organized at Liege (Belgium) in August 1984 under the auspices of the Section of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry of the International Union of Biological Sciences. In a general foreword to these different volumes, it seems to me appropriate to consider briefly what may be the comparative approach. Living organisms, beyond the diversity of their morphological forms, have evolved a widespread range of basic solutions to cope with the different problems, both organismal and environmental with which they are faced. Soon after the turn of the century, some biologists realized that these solutions can be best comprehended in the frame­ work of a comparative approach integrating results of physiological and biochemical studies done at the organismic, cellular and molecular levels. The development of this approach amongst both physiologists and biochemists remained, however, extremely slow until recently.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Neuroendocrine Control of Population Size in Rodents with Special Emphasis on the Mongolian Gerbil....Pages 2-17
Social and Hormonal Determinants of Reproductive Patterns in the Prairie Vole....Pages 18-36
Hormones and the Sexual Behaviour of Monkeys....Pages 37-47
Mechanisms of Androgen-Activated Sexual Behaviour in Rats....Pages 48-59
Neural Progestin Receptors: Regulation of Progesterone-Facilitated Sexual Behaviour in Female Guinea Pigs....Pages 60-76
Strategies for Determining the Molecular Mechanisms of Oestrogen Regulation of Female Reproductive Behaviour....Pages 77-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Testosterone and Aggressive Behaviour during the Reproductive Cycle of Male Birds....Pages 92-104
Phasic Effects of Hormones in the Avian Brain During Behavioural Development....Pages 105-120
Role of Testosterone Metabolism in the Activation of Sexual Behaviour in Birds....Pages 121-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Endocrine Control of Behavioural Sexual Differentiation in the Male Ferret....Pages 142-148
Aromatization: Is It Critical for the Differentiation of Sexually Dimorphic Behaviours?....Pages 149-164
Prenatal Androgens in Female Rats and Adult Mounting Behaviour....Pages 165-179
Searching for Neural Correlates of Sexual Differentiation in a Heterogeneous Tissue....Pages 180-202
Sexual Differentiation is a Biphasic Process in Mammals and Birds....Pages 203-219
Sex Differences in the Anterior Pituitary Gland....Pages 220-245
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Estimation of Biogenic Amines in Biological Tissues....Pages 248-263
Neurotransmitters, Neuromodulators, and Neurohormones....Pages 264-279
The Distribution of Biogenic Monoamines in Invertebrates....Pages 280-296
Amine-Sensitive Adenylate Cyclases and Their Role in Neuronal Function....Pages 297-314
Biogenic Amines and the Regulation of Peptidergic Neurosecretory Cells....Pages 315-328
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Normal and Abnormal Animal Behaviour: Importance of Catecholamine Release by Nerve Impulses for the Maintenance of Normal Behaviour....Pages 329-343
Front Matter....Pages 345-345
Phototransduction in Invertebrate Visual Cells. The Present State of Research — Exemplified and Discussed Through the Limulus Photoreceptor Cell....Pages 346-362
Hypersensitivity in the Anterior Median Eye of a Jumping Spider....Pages 363-374
Sensitizing Pigments and Their Significance for Vision....Pages 375-386
Visual, Mitochondrial, and Pupillary Pigments of Fly Photoreceptor Cells....Pages 387-397
Two-Dimensional Gel Analysis of Polypeptides in Drosophila Compound Eyes....Pages 398-412
Back Matter....Pages 413-415

✦ Subjects

Neurosciences; Biochemistry, general; Zoology; Cell Biology