Hormonally Active Brain Peptides: Structure and Function: Biochemical Endocrinology

1 Structure and Function Relationships among Synthetic Enkephalin Analogues.- 2 Secondary Structure — Function Relationships in ?-Endorphin: A Proposed Model of the Biologically Active Conformation.- 3 Studies on the Conformation of Neuropeptides.- 4 The Search for the Active Center of the Gonadotropins.- 5 Hormonal Antagonistic Properties of Deglycosylated Pituitary Lutropin.- 6 Hormonal Regulation of and Ionic Requirements for in Vitro Release of Hypothalamic Peptides.- 7 In Vitro Release of Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone: Influence of Estrogen and a Mammary Carcinogen.- 8 Mode of Opioid and Catecholamine Involvement in Regulating LH Secretion.- 9 Stress, Corticoliberin (CRF), and Glucocorticoids in the Regulations of ACTH Release.- 10 The Role of Steroid Receptors in the Regulation and Integration of Steroid and Peptide Hormone Actions in Common Target Cells: Facts and Speculations.- 11 Effects of Estrogens on Receptor “Nucleotropy” and “Activation”.- 12 Steroids and Membrane-Associated Events in Neurons and Pituitary Cells.- 13 Electrical Effects of Steroids in Neurons.- 14 Recent Data on Neuropeptide Mapping in the Central Nervous System.- 15 Distribution and Changes in Peptides in the Brain.- 16 In Vitro Synthesis of Hypothalamic Neurophysin Precursors.- 17 Steroid Antagonism of Melanosome Movements Induced by Neuropeptides.- 18 Is VIP a Neuroregulator or a Hormone?.- 19 Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone: Release into Hypophyseal Portal Blood and Mechanism of Action.- 20 Biodegradation of Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone.- 21 Ultrastructural Characteristics of Proteinergic Synthesis in the Pineal Gland.- 22 Peptidergic Activity of the Pineal Gland in Stress.- 23 Effect of Colchicine on the Stress-Type ACTH Release in Rats.- 24 Genesis andProperties of Pituitary ACTH, MSH, Prolactin, and GH Producing Cells.- 25 Interaction between Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone and Prolactin-Producing Cells.- 26 Cell-Free Synthesis of Rat Lutropin Subunits.- 27 Cellular Polyproteins from Pituitary and Hypothalamus: Composite Precursors to Oligopeptide Hormones.- 28 Tritium Labeling of Brain Peptides.- Appendix Members of the International Foundation for Biochemical Endocrinology.