Brain Control of the Reproductive System

For graduate students and researchers working in mammalian reproductive physiology, focuses on a few selected aspects of the role of higher brain function on the brain-pituitary-gonad dynamic axis that controls sexual differentiation and behavior, including lactation. Morphological studies of the central nervous system explore the feedback mechanism of gonadal hormone, the perception and processing of the conspecific signals such as pheromones, and sexual differentiation. Others discuss the physiological mechanisms that regulate the pulsatile release of gonadotropin and oxytocin, and review female sexual behavior. Distributed in the US by CRC Press. Acidic paper. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.