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Introductory Endocrinology: A Concise and Applied Digest / Romesh Khardori, DD Bansal, Pranav Mehra

First Edition: 2017

In the last 5 decades, endocrinology has gained ascendancy primarily due to refinements in our assay techniques, revolutionary shifts in cellular biology, and the genomics. It remains to date one of the most fascinating specialties in biology due to intricacies of feed forward and feedback system that are both challenging and exciting all at once. It is heavily rooted in physiology, cellular biology, and biochemistry. Those who have made endocrinology a subject of their fancy often tell you how rewarding the cerebral study of endocrinology is, both at bench as well as in the clinic/bedside. Study of endocrinology is no longer restricted to traditional endocrine gland, but also brings under its ambit study of transcellular and intercellular communication (cytokines, chemokines, intracellular signal transduction, hormonal control of immunoregulatory systems). Endocrinologists now have tools available by which they can assess signaling systems without having to sacrifice whole animal. This includes dynamic imaging and tissue sampling in vivo.

Authors are grateful to Mrs Jyoti Mehra, Technical Officer, Multimedia and Animation Department, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Mohali for helping in designing the diagrams presented in this book.fm11