endocrine system: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

General works

A comprehensive historical and biographical survey is provided by Victor Cornelius Medvei, A History of Endocrinology (1982). Comprehensive standard texts include Leslie J. DeGroot et al. (eds.), Endocrinology, 3 vol. (1979); and Francis S. Greenspan and Peter H. Forsham (eds.), Basic & Clinical Endocrinology, 2nd ed. (1986). For modern research in the field, see Recent Progress in Hormone Research: Proceedings of the Laurentian Hormone Conference (irregular); and Current Therapy in Endocrinology and Metabolism (biennial). Peter H. Wise, Endocrinology (1986), is a useful atlas.

Briefer coverage is provided in Jay Tepperman and Helen M. Tepperman, Metabolic and Endocrine Physiology: An Introductory Text, 5th ed. (1987); Robert Volpé (ed.), Autoimmunity and Endocrine Disease (1985); C. Donnell Turner and Joseph T. Bagnara, General Endocrinology, 6th ed. (1976); C.R. Kannan, Essential Endocrinology: A Primer for Nonspecialists (1986); Brian K. Follett, Susumu Ishii, and Asha Chandola (eds.), The Endocrine System and the Environment (1985); and T.S. Danowski, Outline of Endocrine Gland Syndromes, 3rd ed. (1976). A survey of medical literature can be found in The Year Book of Endocrinology.

Comparative endocrinology

David O. Norris, Vertebrate Endocrinology, 2nd ed. (1985); Ari Van Tienhoven, Reproductive Physiology of Vertebrates, 2nd ed. (1983); Kenneth C. Highnam and Leonard Hill, The Comparative Endocrinology of the Invertebrates, 2nd ed. (1977); Geoffrey W. Bennett and Saffron A. Whitehead, Mammalian Neuroendocrinology (1983); E.J.W. Barrington and C. Barker Jørgensen (eds.), Perspectives in Endocrinology: Hormones in the Lives of Lower Vertebrates (1968); and Aubrey Gorbman et al., Comparative Endocrinology (1983).

Theodore B. Schwartz

Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Endocrine System. Nov 19, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Southern Queensland - Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology - An Overview of the Endocrine System. Sep 28, 2024
Add new Web site: WebMD - The Endocrine System and Glands of the Human Body. May 20, 2024
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Intro to the endocrine system. Feb 27, 2024
Add new Web site: Better Health Channel - Hormonal (endocrine) system. Dec 29, 2023
Add new Web site: Johns Hopkins Medicine - Anatomy of the Endocrine System. Aug 11, 2023
Add new Web site: Biology LibreTexts - The Endocrine System. Apr 20, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Central Florida - Pressbooks - The Endocrine System. Feb 15, 2023
Add new Web site: Cleveland Clinic - Endocrine System. Dec 21, 2022
Add new Web site: Healthline - Endocrine System Overview. Nov 16, 2022
Corrected display issue. Sep 08, 2022
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Endocrine System. Aug 31, 2022
Add new Web site: Verywell Health - What is the Endocrine System? May 01, 2022
Add new Web site: LiveScience - Endocrine System: Facts, Functions and Diseases. Feb 20, 2021
Add new Web site: The Nemours Foundation - For Teens - Endocrine System. Oct 25, 2017
Add new Web site: Pacific Medical Training - PMT Scribe Academy - The Endocrine System. May 30, 2017
Add new Web site: Pacific Medical Training - PMT Scribe Academy - The Endocrine System. May 30, 2017
Media added. Jun 08, 2016
Add new Web site: Untamed Science - Endocrine System. Sep 12, 2012
Line art depicting the glands of the human endocrine system added. Jan 21, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Healthguide - Endocrine Glands. Sep 30, 2008
Added new Web site: The Nemours Foundation - For Parents - Endocrine System. Apr 23, 2008
Added new Web site: None. Jul 10, 2006
Article revised. Aug 20, 1999
Article added to new online database. Aug 12, 1998
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