Table of Contents
I. Development, light microscopic anatomy and cytology, innervation and vascularization
Chapter 1: Survey of the Development and Comparative Morphology of the Pineal Organ
Chapter 2: Histological Structure and Cytology of the Pineal Complex in Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles
Chapter 3: Histological Structure and Cytology of the Pineal Organ in Birds and Mammals
Chapter 4: Survey of the Innervation of the Epiphysis Cerebri and the Accessory Pineal Organs of Vertebrates
Chapter 5: Histologische und Histochemische Untersuchungen an der Epiphyse von Haien*
Chapter 6: On the Ontogeny of the Pineal- and Parapineal Organs in Teleost Fishes*
Chapter 7: Die Gefässversorgung der Epiphyse und Paraphyse bei Reptilien*
Chapter 8: The Histologic Structure of the Human Pineal Body
Chapter 9: Modifications Histologiques de l’Epiphyse Humaine pendant l’Enfance, l’Age Adulte et le Vieillissement*
II. Electron microscopical structure
Chapter 10: Vergleichende Elektronenmikroskopische Studien am Pinealorgan*
Chapter 11: Elektronenmikroskopische Untersuchungen am Pinealorgan der Regenbogenforelle (Salmo irideus)
Chapter 12: Ultrastructure and Development of Amphibian Pineal Organs
Chapter 13: Further Light and Electron Microscopy of the Pineal Eye, with a Note on Thermoregulatory Aspects
Chapter 14: Licht- und Elektronenmikroskopische Beobachtungen über die Struktur der Epiphysis Cerebri des Kaninchens
Chapter 15: Weitere Untersuchungen zur Feinstruktur der Epiphysis Cerebri Normaler und Vorbehandelter Ratten*
Chapter 16: The Epiphyseal Cell: an Electron-microscopic Study of its Intercellular Relationships and Intracellular Morphology in the Pineal Body of the Albino Rat
III. Biochemistry and cytochemistry
Chapter 17: Ultrastructure and Pharmacological Studies of Nerve Endings in the Pineal Organ
Chapter 18: Localization of Neuronal and Parenchymal Monoamines under Normal and Experimental Conditions in the Mammalian Pineal Gland
Chapter 19: Lipids in the Pineal Body of the Rat
Chapter 20: Observations on the Rat Pineal in Tissue Culture
Chapter 21: Activités Enzymatiques Histochimiquement Décelables dans la Glande Pinéale, chez Quelques Artiodactyles
IV. Physiology, pharmacology and endocrinology
Chapter 22: Physiology of the Pineal Body
Chapter 23: Pineal Regulation of Body Blanching in Amp hibian Larvaexs
Chapter 24: Analysis of Antagonisms between Pineal Melatonin and other Agents which Act on the Amphibian Melanophore
Chapter 25: The Formation, Metabolism, and Physiologic Effects of Melatonin in Mammals
Chapter 26: Uptake of 131 I-labeled Triiodothyronine in the Pineal Body as Compared with the Cerebral Grey and Other Tissues of the Rat
Chapter 27: Alterations of the Pineal Lipid Content in the Rat under Hormonal Influences
Chapter 28: Metabolic and Morphologic Studies on the Rat Pineal Organ During Puberty
Chapter 29: Contribution à l’Etude du Mécanisme de l’Antagonisme Epiphyso-Hypophysaire
Chapter 30: Influence de la Glande Pinéale sur la Sphère Génitale
Chapter 31: The Pineal Gland and the Control of Electrolyte Balance and of Gonadotropic Secretion: Functional and Morphological Observations
Chapter 32: Etude de la Sécrétion des Corticostéroïdes et de l’Hormone Adrénocorticotrope Hypophysaire chez le Rat Epiphysectomisé
Chapter 33: Contribution à l’Etude du Comportement Corrélatif du Complexe Epithalamo-Epiphysaire et de la Zone Glomérulaire des Glandes Surrénales sous l’Influence de l’Obscurité
Chapter 34: Participation of the Epithalamo-Epiphyseal System in the Regulation of Water and Electrolytes Metabolism
Chapter 35: The Effect of Pinealectomy and of Lesions in the Subcommissural Body on the Rate of Aldosterone Secretion by Rat Adrenal Glands in Vitro
Chapter 36: Experimental Evidence for Pineal Participation in Homeostasis of Brain Composition
Chapter 37: Zur pathologischen Anatomie tierischer Epiphysen
General Discussion
Author Index*
Subject Index
