FALL 2001 COURSE SYLLABUS FOR ENDOCRINOLOGY (BIRU 4639)

Instructor:	Levente Kapás, M. D. 

Office Hours:	Mondays 3 – 4:30 pm
	Thursday 10:30 –12 noon
	Also, by appointment
	Larkin Hall 210, phone:  #3891
e-mail:  kapas@fordham.edu

Textbook:	Hadley, M.E., Endocrinology, 5th edition, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2000 (ISBN: 0130803561, Available in Fordham or other bookstores or from web retailers, ~$98)

Recommended Book:	Kacsoh, B., Endocrine Physiology, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 2000 (ISBN: 0070344329, available from bookstores or web retailers, $34.95)
Sherwood, L., Human Physiology:  from cells to systems.  4th edition.  Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA, 2001 (ISBN:  0534568262, Available in Fordham or other bookstores or from web retailers, ~$109)

Course on the web:	Electronic Reserve Room at Fordham Library (http://reserves.library.fordham.edu) 
Course Home Page at http://www.geocities.com/fordhamendocrinology

Grading:	4 lecture exams @ 100 points each	=  400 points
	Journal Club				=    30 points
	1 final exam (comprehensive)		=  200 points
	TOTAL:					=  630 points								
The lecture exams cover the information discussed in class and the reading assignments.  The standard Fordham University grading system will be used to determine the final grade for the entire course:  A = 93-100%, A- = 90-92%, B+ = 87-89%, B = 83-86 %, B- = 80-82%, C+ = 77-79%, C = 73-76%, C- = 70-72%, D = 60-70%.

Attendance:  You are required to attend all lectures.  If a student is absent from an exam, he/she will receive a grade of 0 for that exam;  he/she can take a substitute exam if a letter from a physician is presented stating that he/she was too ill to attend class on the day of the exam. 

The Fordham College policy on Academic Integrity will be enforced.
  
ENDOCRINOLOGY, Fall, 2001

Week	Day	Topic	Pages	
Week 1	08/29	Introduction to endocrinology:  the concept of humoral regulation	1 – 25 	
				
Week 2	09/05	The control of hormone formation; Assessment of endocrine actions	26 – 58 	
				
Week 3	09/10	Mechanisms of hormonal action; the receptor concept	60 – 80 	
	09/12	Neuroendocrinology:  the hypothalamic-pituitary unit	111 – 137 	
				
Week 4	09/17	The anterior pituitary I	89 – 99, 
277 – 290  	
	09/19	The anterior pituitary II. and the intermediate pituitary	100 – 110 	
				
Week 5	09/24	Lecture exam 1		
	09/26	The posterior pituitary	138 – 164 	
				
Week 6	10/01	Thyroid hormones	312 – 337 	
	10/03	The adrenal medulla	338 – 361 	
				
Week 7	10/09	The adrenal cortex I.	362 – 378 	
	10/10	The adrenal cortex II.	379 – 396 	
				
Week 8	10/15	Reproductive endocrinology:  sex differentiation and development (part of Lecture exam 3.)	397 – 421 	
	10/17	Male reproductive endocrinology (part of Lecture exam 3.)	422 – 444 	
				
Week 9	10/22	Lecture exam 2.		
	10/24	Neuroendocrinology:  neurotransmitters and neuromodulators 	517 – 532 	
				
Week 10	10/29	Female reproductive endocrinology I.	445 – 460 	
	10/31	Female reproductive endocrinology II.	461 – 473 	
				
Week 11	11/05	The endocrinology of pregnancy, parturition and lactation	474 – 295 	
	11/07	Lecture exam 3.		
				
Week 12	11/12	The endocrine function of the pancreas:  insulin	250 – 276 	
	11/14	The physiology of other pancreatic and gastrointestinal hormones and the endocrinology of the adipose tissue, appetite and obesity	220 – 249 	
				
Week 13	11/19	Hormonal regulation of mineral metabolism	190 – 219	
				
Week 14	11/26	Neuroimmunoendocrinology and the endocrinology of the circadian rhythms and sleep	496 – 516 	
	11/28	Journal Club	TBA	
				
Week 15	12/03	Lecture exam 4.		
	12/05	TBA