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Vertebrate Endocrinology, Fourth Edition

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This is probably not a good textbook for an undergraduate course - it's too dense and wordy. However, for grad students or for a reference it's perfect. I'm a PhD researcher branching into thyroid hormones for the first time, and so I've been checking all the major endocrinology textbooks for their thyroid chapters, basically trying to get up to speed in a new field. This text has by far the most useful summary of thyroid structure and function that I could find anywhere. No, it's not incredibly easy to read - it's one of those books that I don't even try to tackle if I haven't got a full pot of coffee in arm's reach - but it's got the real info. There are a lot of useful little nuggets that I didn't find in other sources. Like, aha, at last I understand exactly what reverse-T3 is, and at last I understand euthyroid-sick syndrome and, oh, there's four kinds of goiter and not just one, aha.... The places where the text is "contradictory", which one reviewer mentioned above, I think are simply when it's accurately reporting contradictory results from different scientific studies. For a professional or grad student who needs the real info and not a watered-down oversimplified version, this is a great resource.

I have Dr. Norris for my endocrinology class. The text book goes further in depth than his lectures which can be a pro and a con. The text is very small and sometimes confusing, but when you work though it provides the reader with a strong backbone knowledge of endocrinology. Some figures are a bit too confusing. More simplistic pictures and color figures would greatly improve the book.

This book is awful. The text is often self-contradictory, and sentences are grammatically structured such that they can be very confusing. Also, the figures are all very technical and in black and white. My professor is currently using this book as an "experiment"; 2 weeks into the semester, I know the results!

extremely comprehensive as far as comparative endocrinology is concerned and does a very good job on mammalian endocrinology.