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Klappentext This volume provides a particularly timely survey of invertebrate peptide hormones. Zusammenfassung This volume provides a particularly timely survey of invertebrate peptide hormones. Interest in invertebrate peptide hormones has focused upon two important and related aspects! both of which are fully covered in this volume. As such! it should have a broad appeal to scientists from a number of disciplines. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Preface; 1. What is special about peptides as neuronal messengers? J. Joosse; Part I. Immunocytochemistry and Ultrastructure: 2. The new neurobiology - ultrastructural aspects of peptide release as revealed by studies of invertebrate nervous systems D. W. Golding and D. V. Pow; 3. Immunocytochemistry of hormonal peptides in molluscs: optical and electron microscopy and the use of monoclonal antibodies H. H. Boer and J. van Minnen; 4. Immunocytology of insect peptides and amines C. Rémy and J. Vieillemaringe; 5. Immunocytochemistry and ultrastructure of crustacean endocrine cells G. Martin; Part II. Arthropod Neurohormones: 6. Characterisation of insect neuropeptides W. Mordue and K. J. Siegert; 7. The isolation and characterisation of vertebrate-type peptides in insects H. Duve and A. Thorpe; 8. Humoral functions of insect neuropeptides C. H. Wheeler, G. Gäde and G. J. Goldsworthy; 9. Functions of aminergic and peptidergic skeletal motoneurones in insects M. O'Shea, S. Hekimi, J. Witten and M. K. Worden; 10. Physiology and biochemistry of crustacean neurohormonal peptides S. G. Webster and R. Keller; Part III. Neurohormones in Coelenterates, Annelids and Protochordates: 11. Structure, location and possible actions of Arg-Phe-amide peptides in coelenterates C. J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen, D. Graff and A. N. Spencer; 12. Neuropeptides and monoamines in annelids M. Porchet and N. Dhainaut-Courtois; 13. Functional aspects of peptide neurohormones in protochordates M. C. Thorndike and D. Georges; Part IV: Neurohormones in Molluscs: 14. Bioactive peptides in molluscs W. P. M. Geraerts, E. Vreugdenhil and R. H. M. Ebberink; 15. Actions and roles of the FMRFamide peptides in Helix G. A. Cottrell, N. W. Davies, J. Turner and A. Oates; 16. Evolution of peptide hormones: an Aplysia CRF-like peptide R. Taussig, J. R. Nambu and R. H. Scheller; Index....