Hormone Biotechnology : Commemorative Volume for Professor Samir Bhattacharya, FNA
Contents: Preface. I. Clinical endocrinology and biotechnology: 1. Development of male contraceptives: approaches, associated problems and possible solutions/D. Chitra Lekha and A.J. Rao. 2. Menopause: hormonal imbalance and herbal management of clinical symptoms/Priya Kapur and B.M.J. Pereira. 3. Additive reaction of catecholamines and their effects upon outcome and predictive diagnosis in liver surgery/S. Porta, H. Bacher, H.J. Mischinger and S. Wurzinger. 4. Influence of thyroid hormones on cardio vascular system: an overview/Peranaidu Govindarajulu. 5. Glycodelin A: Protector of fetus from maternal immune attack/Anjali A. Karande and Debaditya Mukhopadhyay. 6. Prostate cancer: an update/J. Arunakaran. 7. DNA microarray: from technology to endocrine research/Arun Bandyopadhyay, Kakali De, Goutam Ghosh, Aditya Konar, Sangita Maity, Malabika Dutta and Samir Bhattacharya. II. Hormones and reproduction: 8. Estrogens and spermatogenesis/Chandrima Shaha and Durga Prasad Mishra. 9. A need to study the hormonal regulation of sertoli cells isolated from spermatogenically inactive and active testis: implications in determining causes underlying idiopathic male infertility/Kanchan Sarda, Jibananda Mishra, Y. Sangeetadevi and Subeer S. Majumdar. 10. On the surveillance of sperm auto-antigens by the epididymal epithelium/M.A. Akbarsha and M. Michael Aruldhas. 11. Estrogen receptors: signaling and crosstalk/Wright Jacob, Partha Roy and Ben M.J. Pereira. 12. Ovarian tissue remodeling: the role of extra cellular matrix/Samir Kumar Saha, Pamela Ghosh, Debanjali Mitra, Aditya Konar, Samir Bhattacharya, Satinath Mukherjee and Sib Sankar Roy. 13. Melatonin and immunomodulation in seasonally breeding mammals/Chandana Haldar and Seema Rai. III. Comparative endocrinology and biotechnology: 14. Phylogenetic diversity and evolution of pituitary Gonadotropin Beta subunits/John Yuh-Lin Yu and San-Tai Shen. 15. Molecular aspects of reproductive neuroendocrinology in Salmon/Akihisa Urano and Hironori Ando. 16. Could autonomic sympathetic nerves of the Pineal organ mediate light-specific information?/B. Vigh, L.C. Frank, C. David, G. Racz and A. Szel. 17. Control of thyroid-stimulating hormone secretion in amphibians/Reiko Okada, Yoichi Ito, Miyoko Kaneko, Kazutoshi Yamamoto and Sakaekikuyama. 18. Gonadotropin-Inhibitory Hormone (GnIH) in the Avian Brain/Kazuyoshi Tsutsui. 19. Aquaculture biotechnology: an Indian perspective/Arun K. Ray and Basant K. Tiwary. IV. Hormones and stress: 20. Oxidative stress and the thyroid gland: the role of melatonin as a potential antioxidant/Andrzej Lewinski and Malgorzata Karbownik. 21. Oxidative stress and male reproduction/B. Saradha and P.P. Mathur. 22. Endocrine regulation of metabolism, oxidative stress and reproduction: physiological implications of functional interactions/O.V. Oommen, F. Sunny, M. Smita, J.M. George, P. Sreejith, R.S. Beyo, L. Divya, A.S. Vijayasree, M. Manju, C. Johnson and M.A. Akbarsha. 23. Stress endocrinology and conservation/J.F. Cockrem. V. Endocrine disruption and biotechnology: 24. Endocrine disruptors: their mechanism of actions and testing strategies to assess human hazard/Vikas Kumar, Bhavna Sharma, Ben M.J. Pereira and Partha Roy. 25. Assessment of endocrine disruptive activities of Xenobiotics in teleosts/Shelley Bhattacharya and Sonali Roy. 26. Ovarian dysfunction under galactose toxicity/Syed N. Kabir and Soma Bandyopadhyay. 27. Regulation of avian growth plate development and its interruption by Thiram, A Dithiocarbamate pesticide/Narayan C. Rath, William E. Huff, Geraldine R. Huff. Index.
"The title presents for the first time a balanced variety of authentic reports on various aspects of endocrine research directed towards application of acquired knowledge as the most effective tool of biotechnology for the propagation of economic animals and management of human health. The book provides comprehensive, integrated reviews giving sound, critical, and provocative ideas supported by most appropriate illustrations covering diverse areas of hormones and biotechnology, from molecular to organismic levels. One of the notable features of the book is that the articles included herein have been contributed by globally reputed scientists who were responsible for collection of original data from their own long-term research in India and/or abroad. Most of the articles deal with various aspects of hitherto undiscussed areas of hormones and biotechnology emphasising hormonal implication in different reproductive and physiological disorders, and molecular basis of their remedies. The information presented in this book are recent and novel, and have far reaching consequences for application of hormones as the biotechnological tool in the care of animals and in cure of human physiological disorders. The book will be useful to students and researchers in the field of biotechnology, reproductive biology, molecular biology and any one with an interest in endocrinology." (jacket)
