**UPDATE ON MECHANISMS OF HORMONE ACTION – FOCUS ON METABOLISM, GROWTH AND REPRODUCTIONS**

Edited by **Gianluca Aimaretti**  Co-Editors: **Paolo Marzullo** and **Flavia Prodam**

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/1015 Edited by Gianluca Aimaretti with Paolo Marzullo and Flavia Prodam

#### **Contributors**

Dorota Zieba, Malgorzata Szczesna, Oreste Gualillo, Carlos Dieguez, Francisca Lago, Rodolfo Gomez, Javier Conde, Morena Scotece, Takahiro Yoshikawa, Honoo Satake, Tsuyoshi Kawada, Toshio Sekiguchi, Tsubasa Sakai, Masato Aoyama, Martin Hill, Antonín Pařízek, Radmila Kancheva, David Cibula, Nikolaj Madzarov, Luboslav Stárka, José Eugenio Sánchez-Criado, Ana Gordon, José Carlos Garrido-Gracia, Juana Martín de las Mulas, Rafaela Aguilar, Carmina Bellido, Takafumi Sakai, Ichiro Sakata, Piotr Henryk Skalba, Dilip Mukherjee, Sourav Kundu, Kousik Pramanick, Sudipta Paul, Buddhadev Mallick, Chellakkan Selvanesan Blesson, Ayse Pinar Cemeroglu, Lora Kleis, Wensheng Li, Guangzhong Wang, Caiyun Sun, Haoran Lin, Angelika Mohn, Valentina Chiavaroli, Francesco Chiarelli, Ebe D'Adamo, Tommaso De Giorgis, Laura Diesse, Manuel Aguilar-Diosdado, María Gloria Baena-Nieto, Cristina López-Tinoco, Jose Ortego-Rojo, Masa-aki Hattori, Guo Huang, Min Zhao, Malin Hedengran Faulds, Danielle van der Kaay, Anita Hokken-Koelega, Colin Scanes, Carmen Sanz, Isabel Roncero, Elvira Alvarez, Veronica Hurtado, Enrique Blazquez, Aytul Corbacioglu

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Update on Mechanisms of Hormone Action - Focus on Metabolism, Growth and Reproduction Edited by Gianluca Aimaretti with Paolo Marzullo and Flavia Prodam

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