298 



SUBJECT INDEX 



Ligia, chromactivating hormones, 



LDH and LLH, 87, 98, lOOff., 



101 

 Lipophores, 83 

 Liver, bile flow from, 124 

 Locomotion, reduction of, 69, 70 

 Lumbricidae (earthworms), 4 

 Lungs, 237 

 Luteal-stimulating hormone, LSH 



{see Luteotrophin) 

 Luteinizing hormone, LH, 5, 44, 



128, ISOff., 152, 161fr. 

 Luteotrophin, LSH, 22, 44, 128, 



133, 150ff., 157 {see also 



Prolactin) 



Macrura {= Decapoda, other than 



Brach^nara) 98in. 

 Malacostraca, 26, 28, 82, 83, 93 

 Malpighian tubules, 63, 223 

 Mammalia, 1, 253, 256 {see also 

 Cetacea, Carnivora and Roden- 

 tia) 

 and balance of electrolytes and 

 water, 207, 208, 214, 215ff., 

 216, 217, 219, 227flF., 229, 

 230, 233, 237ff., 238 

 and calcium and phosphates, 

 241, 246ff., 247, 249, 250, 

 251 

 and control of endocrine glands, 

 133, 140ff., 142, 144ff., 145, 

 146, 148, 149ff. 

 and control of kinetic hormones, 



155, 156, 157, 160, 162 

 and exocrine glands, 66, 68, 

 117ff., 118, 120, 121, 122, 

 122ff., 123, 125, 128ff., 129, 

 130ff. 

 and fat, 187 



and intermediary metabolism, 

 190, 194, 194fr., 196, 197flf., 

 198, 205 



and muscles, face 62, 63ff., 65, 



67, face 68, 70 

 and respiration, 169, 173, 174, 



175, 176, 177, 185ff. 

 sources of hormones in, face 22, 

 34, 35, 38, 41ff., 42, 44, 45, 

 face48, 50, 51,53, face 140, 

 face 141 

 Mammary glands, 65, 66, 68, 119, 



121, 129, 130, 151ff., 153 

 Median eminence of vertebrate 



brain, 35,36,41,42, 142 

 Medium, hypertonic, 37, 207, 236 

 hypotonic, 206, 225, 237 

 saline, 218, 230ff., 232 

 "outside", 233 

 Melanin, 75, 76, 83 

 Melanophore-concentrating hor- 

 mone, MCH or W, 8 

 in Amphibia, 87, 103, 104, 160 

 in fish, 87, 97, 106ff., 106 

 source of (in Pars tuberalis), 22, 

 43, 103ff., 157, 245 

 Melanophore index {see Chromato- 



phore index) 

 Melanophore-stimulating (dispers- 

 ing) hormone, B, MSH, or 

 Interm.edin, 8, 102ff. 

 in Amphibia, 87, 103ff., 104, 160 

 in fish, 87, 94, 97, 105ff., 106 

 in Reptilia, 107 

 source of, 22, 44, 105, 757 

 Melanophores {see Chromatoph- 



ores, black pigment in) 

 Meso- and Meta-adenohypophysis 



of fish, 40, 107, 212 

 Mesoderm, as hormone source, 18, 

 50, 5i 



endocrine cells of, face 48 

 Mesodermal endocrine glands, 9, 



50ff., 51, 53, 143ff. 

 Mesonephric duct, 52 

 Metabolic effects, on activity, 69 

 affected by endocrinokinetic hor- 

 mones, 132 



