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Functional Morphology of Neuroendocrine Systems : Evolutionary and Environmental Aspects by Berta Scharrer (auth.), Prof. Dr. Berta Scharrer, Priv. Doz. Dr. Horst-Werner Korf, Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Hartwig (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Functional Morphology of Neuroendocrine Systems : Evolutionary and Environmental Aspects about?
Intercellular communication is a universal biological activity without which even the most primitive multicellular animals could not exist, and which, in the course of evolution, has been preceded by the exchange of information among unicellular organisms via the extracellular milieu. This fundamental capacity of cells to receive and respond to signals is the basis of the elaborate integrative mechanisms operating in the most highly developed animals, including man. At this advanced level, communication has become the primary function of two interacting organ systems, the nervous and the endocrine. How did this all-important neuroendocrine apparatus evolve? At which time during the ascent of the mammalian organism did its characteristic and diverse features make their appearance? A comparative approach to the study of this problem reveals that in primitive as well as highly differentiated biological systems signal transmission depends on the propagation of action potentials as well as the dispatch of chemical messengers. Both of these mechanisms seem to have originated very early in evolution. ## Conducting Epithelia A mode of intercellular communication, called "neuroid conduction
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- Author
- Berta Scharrer (auth.), Prof. Dr. Berta Scharrer, Priv. Doz. Dr. Horst-Werner Korf, Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Hartwig (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783540181552
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Medical, Stem