Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.
1. MALNOURISHMENT DURING EARLY LACTATION AND alpha MSH ANOREXIGENIC MOLECULES IN HYPOTHALAMUS Penha Cristina Barradas 2. NEUROPEPTIDES IN HYPOTHALAMUS Rafael Rodriguez Covenas 3. DISTRIBUTION OF THE KISSPEPTIN SYSTEM AND ITS RELATION WITH GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE IN THE HYPOTHALAMUS Veronica Berta Dorfman 4. Hypothalamic Neural Circuits Regulating Energy Expenditure Jonathan N. Flak and Rashmita Basu 5. Modulation of Respiration and Hypothalamus Isato Fukushi 6. Kisspeptin control of hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarian functions Keerikkattil Paily Joy and Radha Chauve 7. THE HYPOTHALAMIC NEUROPEPTIDE, QRFP Stefany Primeaux 8. IKKbeta SIGNALING MEDIATES METABOLIC CHANGES IN HYPOTHALAMUS Rana Soylu-Kucharz 9. Functional properties of aged hypothalamic cells Petr M. Masliukov 10. MORPHINE REWARD AND DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION OF THE LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS Esmail Riahi, Mojdeh Fattahi and Milad Rahimpour 11. ORPHAN G PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR, GPR139, IS EXPRESSED IN THE HYPOTHALAMUS Licio A. Velloso 12. MELATONIN, MODULATION OF HYPOTHALAMIC ACTIVITY, AND REPRODUCTION Veronica Berta Dorfman 13. The growing complexity of the control of the hypothalamic pituitary thyroid axis and brown adipose tissue by leptin Virginia Leah Brooks
Dr. Litwack has authored 3 textbooks on biochemistry and hormones (one with John Wiley & Sons and 2 with Academic Press/Elsevier) and he has edited more than 70 volumes in the Vitamins & Hormones series (Academic Press/Elsevier); he has edited 14 volumes entitled Biochemical Actions of Hormones (Academica Press); He has edited (with David Kritchevsky) Actions of Hormones on Molecular Processes (Academic Press)