Biosynthesis, Metabolism and Mode of Action of Invertebrate Hormones [Paperback]

I Peptide Hormones.- I.1 Hormonal Control of Regeneration in Hydra.- I.2 Peptidic Hormones in Annelids.- I.3 Recent Progress in Endocrinology of Molluscs.- I.4 The Structure of the Commands for a Neuropeptide-Mediated Behavior, Egg-Laying, in an Opisthobranch Mollusc.- I.5 Studies on Release Activities of the Neurosecretory Caudo-Dorsal Cells of Lymnaea stagnalis.- I.6 Roles of Calcium and cAMP in Biosynthesis and Release of the Ovulation Hormone of the Freshwater Snail Lymnaea stagnalis.- I.7 The Egg-Laying Behavior of the Pond Snail: Electrophysiological Aspects.- I.8 Prothoracicotropic Hormone of Bombyx mori.- I.9 Neurohormonal Regulation of Molting and Metamorphosis in the Tobacco Hornworm, Manduca sexta.- I.10 Isolation of an Allatotropic Factor in Locusta migratoria and Its Effect on Corpus Allatum Activity in Vitro.- I.11 Neurosecretion in Insects: Multisynthesis, Mode of Action, and Multiregulation.- I.12 Neuropeptides of Vertebrate Type in the Blowfly, Calliphora.- I.13 Peptides from the Corpora cardiaca and CNS of Locusts.- I.14 Adipokinetic Hormones in Locusts.- I.15 Ecdysteroids Regulate the Release and Action of Eclosion Hormone in the Moth Manduca sexta.- I.16 Studies on Crustacean Eyestalk Neuropeptides by Use of High Performance Liquid Chromatography.- I.17 Present State of Knowledge on the Chemical Nature of the Androgenic Hormone in Higher Crustaceans.- II Ecdysteroids.- II.1 Ecdysteroids in Ovaries and Embryos of Locusta migratoria.- II.2 Biosynthesis of Ovarian Ecdysteroid Phosphates and Their Metabolic Fate During Embryogenesis in Schistocerca gregaria.- II.3 Ecdysone Metabolism.- II.4 Ecdysone 20-Monooxygenases.- II.5 Ecdysteroids and Integuments in Locusts.- II.6 Relationships Between Hormones and Epidermal Cell Cycles During the Metamorphosis of Tenebrio molitor.- II.7 On the Mode of Action of Ecdysteroids in Crustaceans.- II.8 Hormonal Control of Sequential Gene Expression in Insect Epidermis.- II.9 Ecdysteroid Regulation of the Major Transcl“'