Overview: Proceedings of Session VII of the Tenth International Symposiumon Chromaffin Cell Biology, held August 25-28, 1999, in Bergen,Norway, and a post-symposium workshop on Chromogranins: fromFundamental Physiology to Clinical Aspects, held August 28, 1999, onboard the coastal steamer MS Richard With. .This book deals with the chromogranins, secretory prohormones from thediffuse neuroendocrine system. The current concepts of theirstructure, biogenesis, biosynthesis, secretion, tissue-specificdistribution, and processing are presented for the first time allwithin one volume, with emphasis o
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