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Hormones and metabolism: a background

This paper not intended to refer directly to animal production nor by its nature can it aim to be comprehensive or detailed. Rather it is intended to provide a bird’s eye view of current thinking in relation to the subject of hormones and metabolism. In doing so it is hoped to provide some perspective in which to place the subsequent papers in this Symposium which involve detailed studies on a number of different aspects of chemical transmission in relation to metabolism. Chemical transmission: endocrine, neural and paracrine