• 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
• 47 min
  6. Vitamin D endocrine system: mechanisms to produce biological responses

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

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

  • Prof. Stavros Manolagas
• Hormones and the Vasculature
• 52 min
  9. Vascular cell signaling by membrane estrogen receptors

  • Prof. Jeffrey Bender
• Hormones and Energy Metabolism
• 41 min
  10. Pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome

  • Prof. Richard Bergman
• Hormones and Growth
• 31 min
  11. The growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor-1 axis in health and disease

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

  • Prof. Chantal Mathieu
• 27 min
  13. Actions of steroid hormones in the brain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Prof. Anthony Norman

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1. Introduction
2. Outline of talk
3. Objectives of this lecture (1)
4. Objectives of this lecture (2)
5. Definitions
6. What is a vitamin?
7. General model of cofactor role of some vitmains
8. Examples of vitamins
9. What is a hormone?
10. General model of hormone action
11. Examples of hormones
12. Vitamin D biology fundamentals
13. Calcium homeostasis
14. Vitamin D history
15. Classical biological actions of vitamin D
16. What is the finction of vitamin D?
17. Effects of vitamin D in young chicks
18. Vitamin D3 structure and formation
19. Endocrine system
20. Vitamin or steroid hormone?
21. Does vitamin D itself prevents rickets?
22. The answer
23. Key discoveries
24. Kidney as an endocrine gland
25. Regulation of kidney 25(OH)D-1-hydroxylase
26. Vitamin D endocrine system
27. Vitamin D receptor
28. Tissue distribution of nuclear VDR
29. New biological actions mediated by 1,25(OH)2D3
30. Vitamin D endocrine system - 2008
31. Vitamin D chemistry fundamentals
32. Introduction to hormone D

Topics Covered

• What is a vitamin?
• What is a hormone?
• Vitamin D biology fundamentals
• Calcium homeostasis
• Classical biological actions of vitamin D
• Vitamin D and endocrine system
• Key discoveries in the field
• Kidney as an endocrine gland for hormone-D
• Vitamin D receptor
• VDR target organs
• Introduction to hormone D

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Series:

• The World of Hormones

Categories:

• Biochemistry
• Cell Biology
• Metabolism & Nutrition
• Physiology & Anatomy

Therapeutic Areas:

• Cardiovascular & Metabolic

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on December 1, 2007

Financial Disclosures

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