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• Development and evolution of the adrenal gland and its homologs in teleosts, anurans, chelonians and birds  
  Claudio Chimenti and Fiorenza Accordi

    1

• Neuroendocrine regulation of amphibian adrenocortical cells by hormones, neurotransmitters and neuropeptides  
  Flavie Sicard and Hubert Vaudry

    31

• Adrenal steroidogenesis in reptiles: Insights from dispersed adrenocortical cells from Sceloporus lizards  
  Rocco V. Carsia, Patrick J.McIlroy, Robert M. Cox, Michele Barrett and Henry B. John-Alder

    57

• Stress in the nest: Causes and consequences of adrenocortical secretion in developing birds  
  Julio Blas and Raquel Baos

    89

• Metal pollution and the stress response  
  Chelsea Ward

    129

• Corticosteroids and the thyroid during amphibian tadpole metamorphosis  
  Mary L. Wright

    147

• Neuronal and endocrine control of catecholamine secretion in fish  
  Colin J. Montpetit and Steve F. Perry

    163

• Possible autocrine control mechanism of chromaffin cells  
  Songül Süren Castillo

    181

• Innervation and neurochemical characteristics of medullary cells in the duck adrenal gland  
  Squillacioti Caterina, De Luca Adriana, Paino Salvatore and Mirabella Nicola

    189

• Piecemeal degranulation in chromaffin cells  
  Enrico Crivellato

    203

• Morphological and functional evidence of paracrine interactions in the adrenal gland of the newt Triturus carnifex  
  Anna Capaldo, Maria De Falco, Vincenza Laforgia and Flaminia Gay

    223

• Neuropeptide regulation of the adrenal gland in reptiles  
  M. De Falco, A. Capaldo, R. Sciarrillo, S. Valiante and V. Laforgia

    243