Chromogranins: Functional and Clinical Aspects (Electronic book text)

Proceedings of Session VII of the "Tenth International Symposium on Chromaffin Cell Biology," held August 25-28, 1999, in Bergen, Norway, and a post-symposium workshop on "Chromogranins: from Fundamental Physiology to Clinical Aspects," held August 28, 1999, on board the coastal steamer MS Richard With. This book deals with the chromogranins, secretory prohormones from the diffuse neuroendocrine system. The concepts of their structure, biogenesis, biosynthesis, secretion, tissue-specific distribution, and processing are presented for the first time all within one volume, with emphasis on the functional aspects of the biologically active sequences and the clinical perspectives of the circulation prohormones.