Hormone Biotechnology

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. Contents Chapter 1: Development of Male Contraceptives: Approaches, Associated Problems and Possible Solutions by D Chitra Lekha & A J Rao; Chapter 2: Menopause: Hormonal Imbalance and Herbal Management of Clinical Symptoms by Priya Kapur & B M J Pereira; Chapter 3: Additive Reaction of Catecholamines and Their Effects upon Outcome and Predictive Diagnosis in Liver Surgery by S Porta, H Bacher, H-J Mischinger & S Wurzinger; Chapter 4: Influence of Thyroid Hormones on Cardio Vascular System: An Overview by Peranaidu Govindarajulu; Chapter 5: Glycodelin A: Protector of Fetus from Maternal Immune Attack by Anjalia Karande & Debaditya Mukhopadhyay, Chapter 6: Prostate Cancer: An Update by J Arunakaran; Chapter 7: DNA Microarray: From Technology to Endocrine Research by Arun Bandyopadhyay, Kakalide, Goutam Ghosh, Aditya Konar, Sangitamaity, Malabika Dutta, Samir Bhattacharya; Chapter 8: Estrogens and Spermatogenesis by Chandrima Shaha & Durga Prasad Mishra; Chapter 9: A Need to Study the Hormonal Regulation of Sertoli Cells isolated from Spermatogenically Inactive and Active Testis: Implications in Determining Cause Underlying Idiopathic Male Infertility by Kanchan Sarda, Jibananda Mishra, Y Sangeeta Devi & Subeer s Majumdar; Chapter 10: On the Surveillance of Sperm Auto-Antigens by the Epididymal Epithelium by M A Akbarsha & M Michael Aruldhas; Chapter 11: Estrogen Receptors: Signaling and Crosstalk by Wright Jacob, Partha Roy & Ben M J Pereira; Chapter 12: Ovarian Tissue Remodeling: The Role of Extra Cellular Matrix by Samir Kumar Saha, Pamela Ghose, Debanjali Mitra, Aditya Konar, Samir Bhattacharya, Satinath Mukherjee & Sib Sankar Roy; Chapter 13: Melatonin and Immunomodulation in Seasonally Breeding Mammals by Chandana Haldar & Seema Rai; Chapter 14: Phylogenetic Diversity and Evolution of Pituitary Gonadotropin Beta Subunits by John Yu-Lin Yu & San-Tai Shen; Chapter 15: Molecular Aspects of Reproductive Neuroendocrinology in Salmon by Akihisa Urano & Hironori Ando; Chapter 16: Could Autonomic Sympathetic Nerves of the Pineal Organ Mediate Light-Specific Information? by B Vigh, L C Frank, C David, G Racz & A Szel; Chapter 17: Control of Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone Secretion in Amphibians by Reiko Okada, Yoichi Ito, Miyoko Kaneko, Kazutoshi Yamamoto, Sakae Kikuyama; Chapter 18: Gonadotropin-Inhibitory Hormone (GnIH) in the Avian brain by Kazuyoshi Tsutsui; Chapter 19: Aquaculture Biotechnology: An Indian Perspective by Arun K Ray & Basant K Tiwary; Chapter 20: Oxidative Stress and the Thyroid Gland: The Role of Melatonin as a Potential Antioxidant by Andrzej Lewinski & Malgorzata Karbownik; Chapter 21: Oxidative Stress and Male Reproduction by B Saradha & P P Mathur; Chapter 22: Endocrine Regulation of Metabolism, Oxidative Stress and Reproduction: Physiological Implications of Functional Interactions by O V Oommen, F Sunny, M Smita, J M George, P Sreejith, R S Beyo, L Divya, A S Vijasree, M Manju, C Johnson & M A Akbarsha; Chapter 23: Stress Endocrinology and Coservation by J F Cockrem; Chapter 24: Endocrine Disruptors: Their Mechanism of Actions and Testing Strategies to Assess Human Hazard by Vikas Kumar, Bhavna Sharma, Ben M J Pereira & Partha Roy; Chapter 25: Assessment of Endocrine Disruptive Activities of Xenobiotics in Teleosts by Shelley Bhattacharya & Sonali Roy; Chapter 26: Ovarian Dysfunction under Galatose Toxicity by Syed N Kabir & Soma Bandyopadhyay; Chapter 27: Regulation of Avian Growth Plate Development and its Interruption by Thiram, A Dithiocarbamate Pesticide by Narayan C Rath, William E Huff, Geraldine R Huff.