10 Facts About Endocrinology

Endocrinology is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones.

Endocrinology is the study of the endocrine system in the human body.

Endocrinology involves caring for the person as well as the disease.

Endocrinology involves the study of the diseases of the endocrine system.

Endocrinology encompasses so many conditions and diseases, there are many organizations that provide education to patients and the public.

European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology is the largest international professional association dedicated solely to paediatric endocrinology.

Endocrinology found that replacement of testes back into the abdominal cavity of the same bird or another castrated bird resulted in normal behavioural and morphological development, and he concluded that the testes secreted a substance that "conditioned" the blood that, in turn, acted on the body of the cockerel.

Endocrinology incubated a frog's heart in a saline bath, and left in the solution for some time.

Endocrinology studied norepinephrine, which acts on the liver to convert glycogen into glucose via the activation of the phosphorylase enzyme.

Endocrinology later identified the compound as cyclic AMP and with his discovery created the concept of second-messenger-mediated pathways.