Endocrine Pharmacology

Abstract

There are a few well-established cases in which pharmacological regulation of endocrine secretion can be brought about in a highly effective and practical fashion by drugs. Prototypes exist, however, of drugs which can do the same thing less effectively for most of the major endocrine glands, with the exception of the parathyroids. These drugs are of a great variety of types and act in many different ways. This provides a wide front from which future advances can be made, in both theoretical and applied endocrinology. It can be expected, therefore, that an endocrine pharmacology will develop comparable to the pharmacology that applies to the nervous system and to other organ systems.