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The Endocrine System

Hormones Elaborated - - Their Nature, Interrelations, and General Mode of Action

University of Wisconsin

Abstract

Animal husbandmen early indicated their interest in that branch of physiology which deals with the internal secreting glands. Wide-spread appreciation now exists that endocrines play an important role in the nutrition, breeding, and production of farm animals and knowledge of these particular physiological factors is now considered fundamental in livestock research. As with many new branches of learning there may have been, especially in its earlier days, some tendency to expect fantastic accomplishments by the science of endocrinology. This symposium, today, might be considered as a reckoning of the understanding which an ever-increasing knowledge of the endocrine glands has given us of the processes of animal physiology which are important in livestock production.

A tremendous mass of experimental data has been accumulated in laboratories throughout the world during the last few decades. Attempts are constantly being made to interpret these data in such a way that the complete story can be told of the mechanism behind some vital process.