Endocrine Abstracts

Although scientists have been seeking the mechanism of action of hormones for over 100 years, which is often before the identity and structures of many hormones were known, we are still unable to say definitively in molecular or structural terms how any hormone exerts a given physiological action. This failure is largely due to the fact that most investigations are technology driven and not hypothesis based. At the same time, two important features of hormones and their action...