Fish Neuroendocrinology provides a current and critical synthesis of the neurohormonal pathways and endocrine signals responsible for maintaining homeostasis in an aquatic environment and for regulating the functional systems that allow for the highly diverse life histories and reproductive tactics of fish. In addition to the key homeostatic interactions between the brain and pituitary gland, this volume explores the communication between the immune and neuroendocrine systems, and the interplay between the endocrine and nervous systems that control key body processes such as fluid balance, food intake, and gut function. As the first comprehensive reference in the discipline, this volume will serve as an excellent resource for comparative physiologists, endocrinologists, neuroanatomists and behaviourists interested in understanding the reciprocal actions between the nervous and endocrine systems.
Section I Anatomical Neuroendocrinology 1
1. Neuroendocrine Systems of the Fish Brain
2. Endocrine Targets of the Hypothalamus and Pituitary
Section II Functional Neuroendocrinology
3. The GnRH System and the Neuroendocrine Regulation of Reproduction
4. Growth Hormone Regulation in Fish: A Multifactorial Model with Hypothalamic, Peripheral and Local Autocrine/Paracrine Signals
5. The Neuroendocrine Regulation of Prolactin and SomatolactinSecretion in Fish
6. Regulation and Contribution of the Corticotropic, Melanotropic and Thyrotropic Axes to the Stress Response in Fishes
7. Neuroendocrine-Immune Interactions in Teleost
8. The Neuroendocrine Regulation of Fluid Intake and Fluid Balance
9. The Endocrine Regulation of Food Intake
10. The Neuronal and Endocrine Regulation of Gut