• Introduction to the World of Hormones
• 45 min
  1. Introduction to hormones

  • Prof. Helen Henry
• The Reproductive Hormones
• 44 min
  2. Endocrinology of parturition

  • Dr. Errol Norwitz
• 54 min
  3. Menopausal hormone therapy

  • Prof. Hugh Taylor
• 53 min
  4. Understanding hormones: mechanisms of androgen receptor function in reproduction and cancer

  • Prof. Elizabeth Wilson
• Hormones in Calcium and Phosphorus Homeostasis
• 36 min
  5. Vitamin D endocrine system: basics

  • Prof. Anthony Norman
• 37 min
  6. Parathyroid hormone and parathyroid hormone-related protein

  • Prof. Robert Nissenson
• 51 min
  7. Hormonal influence on bone remodeling and its implications for the pathophysiology of osteoporosis

  • Prof. Stavros Manolagas
• Hormones and Growth
• 31 min
  8. The growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor-1 axis in health and disease

  • Prof. Derek LeRoith
• Frontiers in Hormone Research
• 47 min
  9. Prevention of type 1 diabetes

  • Prof. Chantal Mathieu
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 46 min
  10. G-protein coupled receptors: hormone membrane receptors

  • Prof. Stuart Sealfon
• 40 min
  11. Nuclear receptors: transcriptional functions

  • Prof. Nancy Weigel
  • Dr. Neil McKenna
• 60 min
  12. Steroid hormones and their receptors in breast cancer

  • Prof. JoEllen Welsh
• 44 min
  13. Nuclear receptor superfamily: structural insights into function

  • Prof. Dino Moras
• 53 min
  14. Receptor tyrosine kinases - function, families and evolution

  • Prof. Tony Hunter
• 58 min
  15. Can we prevent type I diabetes?

  • Prof. Chantal Mathieu
• 39 min
  16. Vitamin D endocrine system: VDR binding, nutrition and drugs development

  • Prof. Anthony Norman
• 47 min
  17. Vitamin D endocrine system: mechanisms to produce biological responses

  • Prof. Anthony Norman
• 41 min
  18. Pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome

  • Prof. Richard Bergman
• 52 min
  19. Vascular cell signaling by membrane estrogen receptors

  • Prof. Jeffrey Bender
• 27 min
  20. Actions of steroid hormones in the brain

  • Prof. Bruce McEwen
• 40 min
  21. Vitamin D and prostate cancer

  • Prof. David Feldman

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1. Introduction
2. Outline
3. The concept of internal secretions
4. Androgens: a history
5. Diabetes and insulin: a history
6. Nobel prizes in the study of hormones (1)
7. Nobel prizes in the study of hormones (2)
8. Hormones: classical definition
9. Hormones: paracrine and autocrine interactions
10. Chemical structures - vertebrate hormones
11. Examples of peptide hormones
12. Examples of protein hormones
13. Examples of steroid hormones
14. Hormones derived from tyrosine
15. Hormones derived from fatty acids
16. Chemical structures - non-vertebrate hormones
17. Some insect hormones
18. Some plant hormones
19. Synthesis and secretion
20. Features of hormone producing cells
21. Pathways: steroid hormones
22. Role of cytochrome P450-dependent enzymes
23. Monooxygenases in steroid synthesis
24. Synthesis of steroid hormones from cholesterol
25. The 5alpha-reduction of testosterone
26. Vitamin D metabolism
27. Regulation of steroid hormone synthesis
28. Pathways: peptide/protein hormones
29. Synthesis of peptide/protein hormones
30. Processing of pro-hormones
31. Pro-opiomelanocortin processing pathways
32. Pathways: amino acid derivatives
33. Formation of thyroid hormones: iodination
34. Coupling of tyrosine residues
35. Storage and secretion of thyroid hormone
36. Synthesis of catecholamines
37. Pathways: fatty acid derivatives
38. Eicosanoid synthesis: release of fatty acid
39. Cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase synthesis
40. Transport in and clearance from blood
41. Transport proteins for steroid/thyroid hormones
42. Hormone receptors
43. Hormone receptor actions
44. Some genetic endocrine disorders
45. Mutations in protein hormones
46. Mutations in steroid synthetic enzymes
47. Nuclear receptor mutations
48. Membrane receptor mutations (inactivating)
49. Chemical messengers: summary

Topics Covered

• History of the study of hormones
• Fundamental concepts of the structure, synthesis and secretion of hormones with emphasis on vertebrate systems
• Molecular diseases of endocrine systems

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• The World of Hormones

Categories:

• Biochemistry
• Physiology & Anatomy

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Publication History

• Published on December 1, 2007

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Helen Henry has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.