Sensing the Environment: Regulation of Local and Global Homeostasis by the Skin's Neuroendocrine System

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Slominski, Andrzej T. (Συγγραφέας), Zmijewski, Michal A. (Συγγραφέας), Skobowiat, Cezary (Συγγραφέας), Zbytek, Blazej (Συγγραφέας), Slominski, Radomir M. (Συγγραφέας), Steketee, Jeffery D. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Σειρά: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, 212
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Dermatology.; Biomedicine.

The skin, the body’s largest organ, is strategically located at the interface with the external environment where it detects, integrates and responds to a diverse range of stressors, including solar radiation. It has already been established that the skin is an important peripheral neuroendocrine-im...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Biogenic amines in the skin
• Melatoninergic system in the skin
• Cutaneous cholinergic system
• Corticotropin signaling system in the skin
• Steroidogenesis in the skin
• Equivalent of hypothalamo-pituitary adrenal axis in the skin
• Cutaneous secosteroidal system
• Equivalent of hypthalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis
• Cutaneous opioid system
• Cutaneous endocannabinoid system
• Perspectives
• References
• Subject index.