BI 213 Endocrinology Webliography

The following websites should be consulted to clarify and expand upon those topics discussed in Endocrinology lectures:

1.  These sites provide an informative

• Table of Hormones:
  http://www.med.unibs.it/~marchesi/
  hormones.html
• Classification of Hormones:
  http://academic.sun.ac.za/medphys/list.htm

2.  The following websites are popular and informative Endocrinology lecture notes covering all topics described in this course:

• http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/
  pathphys/endocrine/index.html
• http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/
  BIOBK/BioBookENDOCR.html
• http://www.cytochemistry.net/Endocrine_System/

 3.  The following websites are lecture sites on the Mechanism of Hormone Action:

• http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/
  pathphys/endocrine/moaction/index.html
• http://www.msu.edu/course/lbs/149h/
  Cell%20Signal.html
• http://www.med.unibs.it/~marchesi/signal.html
• http://www.dentistry.leeds.ac.uk/biochem/
  lecture/cellsig/index.html 

4.  The following websites are lecture sites on Endocrine Function of the Gastrointestinal Tract:

• Both of these sites provide excellent coverage for GI hormones and their physiology:

  http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/
  pathphys/endocrine/gi/index.html
  http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/
  peptide-hormones.html  

5.  The Energy Metabolism and the Endocrine Pancreas sites:

• A good site for Pancreatic Physiology and diabetes: http://www.addison.ac.uk/endocrine_modules/
  module2/lecturers_material/html_files/end2.1
  /sld001.htm
• A good overview of pancreatic endocrine function: http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/
  BiologyPages/P/Pancreas.html
• Insulin function and Diabetes lecture: http://www.med.unibs.it/~marchesi/diabetes.html

6.  Endocrine regulation of Calcium and Phosphate Metabolism:

• Parathyroid Function: http://www.parathyroid.com/
  parathyroid-function.htm

  Calcium Homeostasis: http://www.gravitywaves.com/chemistry/CHE452/
  20_Calcium%20Homeostasis16.htm
• Bone Metabolism (an illustrated set of lecture slides): http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/Courses/ns341/
  341_00/bonelec2/
• Bone and Hormones:

  http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/
  endocrine/thyroid/pth.html

7.  The following websites are lecture sites on the Hypothalamus and Pituitary Glands:

• http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/
  pathphys/endocrine/hypopit/index.html
• http://cellbio.utmb.edu/microanatomy/endocrines/
  pituitary_lec.htm#Endocrine%20gland
• http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/
  BiologyPages/P/Pituitary.html
• Pituitary Images:
  http://academic.sun.ac.za/medphys/list.htm

• (Good Sketch of Hypothalamic Nuclei): http://www.driesen.com/new_page_8.htm   

8.  The following sites relate to Thyroid Physiology:

• http://www.anaesthetist.com/icu/organs/
  endocr/thyroid/thyfx.htm
• http://www.anaesthetist.com/icu/organs/
  endocr/thyroid/Findex.htm#thyfx.htm
• Thyroid hormone synthesis Diagram: http://kcampbell.bio.umb.edu/November01/
  Thycell.gif
• A good British thyroid Physiology site:       http://www.bmb.leeds.ac.uk/teaching/icu3/
  lecture/23/

9.  Adrenal Glands:

• Slide Show site on Adrenal physiology: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/classes/zy/
  561/adrenal/sld001.htm
• Adrenal Endocrinology: http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/
  pathphys/endocrine/adrenal/index.html
• Adrenal hormones:
  http://www.umanitoba.ca/dnalab/med/adr.htm

10. Male Reproductive Endocrinology:

• A slide show of Reproductive Endocrinology:  http://physiology.lf2.cuni.cz/teaching/
  lecturenotes/reprod/sld001.htm
• Lecture notes in Reproductive Physiology and Endocrinology: http://www.wisc.edu/ansci_repro/lec/lec6/lec6out.html 
• Hormones of the male reproductive system: http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/
  BiologyPages/S/SexHormones.html#testosterone

10.  Female Reproductive Endocrinology

• General view: http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.
  ultranet/BiologyPages/S/SexHormones.html
  #Females
• Female Reproductive cycle: http://www.woomb.org/bom/hormones/index.html
• A Slide Show of Female reproduction: http://physiology.lf2.cuni.cz/teaching/lecturenotes/
  reprod/sld063.htm

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