Research Catalog

Title

Steroid hormones and tumour growth and steroid hormones and enzymes. General editor for the Ciba Foundation: G. E. W. Wolstenholme, assisted by Margaret P. Cameron.

Author

Conference on Steroid Hormones and Tumour Growth (1950 : London, England)

Publication

London, Churchill, 1952.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cameron, Margaret P.
• Wolstenholme, G. E. W. (Gordon Ethelbert Ward)
• Conference on Steroid Hormones and Enzymes (1950 : London)

Description

315 p. illus.

Alternative Title

Steroid hormones and enzymes.

Subject

• Endocrine Glands
• Steroids
• Neoplasms
• Neoplasms, Experimental
• Enzymes
• Enzymes > Congresses
• Neoplasms, Experimental > Congresses
• Tumors > Congresses
• Steroids > Congresses
• Endocrine glands > Congresses

Genre/Form

Congress

Note

• Proceedings of the Conference on Steroid Hormones and Tumour Growth, London, 1950, and the Conference on Steroid Hormones and Enzymes, London, 1950.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Steroids in relation to cancer from the chemical aspect / C.W. Shoppee -- The role of dietary trace factors in hormone-induced tissue growth / R. Hertz -- The influence of the male and female sex hormones on the development of lymphoid tumours in mice / E.S. Horning and L. Dmochowski -- Steroid hormones and prostatic cancer in mice / E.S. Horning -- Carcinogenic activity of sterols / I. Hieger -- The effect of steroid hormones on experimental pituitary and gonadal tumorigenesis / W.U. Gardner -- Some effects of steroids on the mammary gland / S.J. Folley -- Le rôle des hormones steroïdes dans la croissance normale et pathologique de la glande mammaire / A. Chamorro -- The effect of steroids on the incidence of mammary tumours in mice / O. Mühlbock -- Hormonal responses of mammary tumours in mice / L.F. Foulds -- Anti-tumour activities of steroids in animals / C. Chester Stock -- The anti-androgenic control of human cancer / C. Huggins --^
• Administration of massive dosage of oestrogen to breast and prostatic cancer patients : blood levels attained / W.W. Tullner, J.P. Young and R. Hertz -- The modification of tumour-host relations by steroid hormones / B.W. Begg -- Steroid hormones and cancer / K. Dobriner -- ACTH and cortisone in acute leukaemia in children / J.H. Burchenal -- Adrenal function and steroid excretion in neoplastic disease / K. Dobriner -- Assay, activity and purification of [beta]-glucuronidase / W.H. Fishman -- The nature, properties and function of [beta]-glucuronidase / G.T. Mills -- On the mechanism of synthesis of conjugated glucuronides / I.D.E. Storey -- The metabolism and excretion of synthetic oestrogens, with special reference to the formation of the glycuronides / D.H. Curnow and E.C. Dodds -- The effects of hormones on [beta]-glucuronidase activity / W.H. Fishman -- Enzymes in the corpora lutea of the rat during pregnancy and lactation / B.K. Meyer --^
• Enzymes in the placentoma of the rat / R.K. Meyer -- The effects on enzymes of androgens and growth hormone / Charles D. Kochakian -- Comparison of [beta]-glucuronidase activity in tissue of foetal, new-born, and infant animals with those of the mother mouse, dog, and human) / W.H. Fishman -- Relation of glucuronidase to action of gonadal hormones / R.K. Meyer -- The growth inhibiting action of cancer producing substances in relation to hormonal control of protein and carbohydrate metabolism / L.A. Elson -- The effects on enzymes of adrenal cortex, diet, oestrogens, and experimental diabetes / Charles D. Kochakian -- Tissue arginase in relation to the adrenal cortex and diabetes / A.L. Greenbaum -- Succinic dehydrogenase and anaerobic glycolysis in the livers of diabetic lactating rats / R.K. Meyer.

OCLC

• 8311099
• SCSB-10277954

Owning Institutions

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