Talk:Endocrinology: Difference between revisions
imported>Peter Lacey m (Talk:Endocrinology moved to Talk:Endocrinology ON WHEELSS!!!: Long Live Wikipedia!) |
imported>Howard C. Berkowitz |
||
| (3 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{subpages}} | |||
Wow--look out, folks. New article under construction. --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 17:19, 21 January 2007 (CST) | Wow--look out, folks. New article under construction. --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 17:19, 21 January 2007 (CST) | ||
== Is endocrinology like Justice Potter Stewart's definition of pornography? == | |||
Stewart once judicially observed that he couldn't define hard-core pornography, but he knew it when he saw it. | |||
Endocrinology has some of that problem. The MeSH definition focusing on the literal endocrine glands, of course, excludes the clinically significant areas of exocrine glands and such things as the HPA. One of the articles here speaks of it as the study of hormones, but that doesn't quite cover direct innervation — or does it? Are all neurotransmitters hormones? Where is the line between a cytokine and a hormone? Is there one? Are intracellular second messengers hormones? Can one draw the endocrinological line at the outside of the cell membrane? | |||
I wait with admiration and interest. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 19:18, 25 February 2009 (UTC) | |||
Latest revision as of 13:19, 25 February 2009
Wow--look out, folks. New article under construction. --Larry Sanger 17:19, 21 January 2007 (CST)
Is endocrinology like Justice Potter Stewart's definition of pornography?
Stewart once judicially observed that he couldn't define hard-core pornography, but he knew it when he saw it.
Endocrinology has some of that problem. The MeSH definition focusing on the literal endocrine glands, of course, excludes the clinically significant areas of exocrine glands and such things as the HPA. One of the articles here speaks of it as the study of hormones, but that doesn't quite cover direct innervation — or does it? Are all neurotransmitters hormones? Where is the line between a cytokine and a hormone? Is there one? Are intracellular second messengers hormones? Can one draw the endocrinological line at the outside of the cell membrane?
I wait with admiration and interest. Howard C. Berkowitz 19:18, 25 February 2009 (UTC)