Endocrinology category: 1008 books
The Parathyroids
Basic and Clinical Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
The third edition of The Parathyroids, led by a new stellar editorial team, has been thoroughly updated to reflect the considerable advances in just about every aspect of PTH biology over the past decade. It continues to be the authoritative reference that spans the basic science of parathyroid...
Testis, Epididymis and Technologies in the Year 2000
11th European Workshop on Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology of the Testis
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
A number of chapters present the most novel research on testicular and epididymal functions or on more general fields of hormone action and molecular cell biology as it is now a tradition. However, exceptionally, the book also contains several chapters dealing with the "Approaches and Tools in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
Vitamin D, a steroid hormone, has mainly been known for its effects on bone and osteoporosis. The current therapeutic practices expand into such markets as cancer research, pediatrics, nephrology, dermatology, immunology, and genetics. This second edition includes over 100 chapters covering everything...
Prolactin
Physiology, Pharmacology and Clinical Findings
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Lactogenic hormone activity was first observed in bovine pituitary extracts by Stricker and Griiter in 1928, working in Bouin's laboratory in Strasbourg. Since that time prolactin has been shown to exist in anterior pituitary extracts of almost all vertebrate species investigated. Although its biology...
by Sujoy Ghosh, MD (General Medicine) DM(Endocrinology) MRCP(UK) MRCPS(Glasgow), Andrew Collier
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
The incidence of diabetes is increasing at epidemic proportions worldwide, presenting a huge challenge to modern medicine. In response, scientific advances in the understanding of diabetes and its complications are being translated into improved clinical practice at ever faster rates. Greater understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Few complications of systemic diseases are better understood than diabetic nephropathy. In large part, progress in this area is due to Carl Erik Mogensen's steadfast preoccupation over more than three decades with the disorder's epidemiology, pathogenesis, pathophysiology, clinical diagnosis and evolving...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Since the beginning of the current century, endocrine disease diagnosis and treatment have moved beyond the standard hormone measurements. While, indeed elevated thyroid hormone levels or low insulin levels signal a specific endocrine disease, correct diagnosis (and therefore correct treatment) depends...
Male Hypogonadism
Basic, Clinical, and Therapeutic Principles
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2003
Recent advances in cellular and molecular biology have markedly increased our understanding of normal and abnormal hypothalamic–pituitary–testicular function. Like other volumes in the Contemporary Endocrinology series, the goal of Male Hy- gonadism: Basic, Clinical, and Therapeutic Principles...
Cholesterol Transporters of the START Domain Protein Family in Health and Disease
START Proteins - Structure and Function
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Non-vesicular intracellular cholesterol transport is an important mechanism for maintaining membrane cholesterol homeostasis. Recent reports of studies directed at soluble cholesterol transport proteins indicate that aberrant expression of the START proteins may contribute to disease states associated...
Male Hypogonadism
Basic, Clinical and Therapeutic Principles
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Now in a revised second edition, this comprehensive text covers all aspects of male hypogonadism from the basic science to clinical management, comprehensively explaining and applying new insights to the treatment of hypogonadal men. Chapters covering neuroendocrine control of testicular function,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Autoimmunity is the most common cause of endocrine disorders. This volume provides an up-to-date summary of recent advances in this important field. In addition, it describes developments in our understanding of conditions such as vitiligo and pernicious anaemia which are frequently associated with...
Vitamin D
Two-Volume Set
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Vitamin D, a steroid hormone, has mainly been known for its effects on bone and osteoporosis. The current therapeutic practices expand into such markets as cancer research, pediatrics, nephrology, dermatology, immunology, and genetics. This 3e includes over 100 chapters covering everything from chemistry...
Handbook of Fertility
Nutrition, Diet, Lifestyle and Reproductive Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Handbook of Fertility: Nutrition, Diet, Lifestyle and Reproductive Health focuses on the ways in which food, dietary supplements, and toxic agents, including alcohol and nicotine affect the reproductive health of both women and men.
Researchers in nutrition, diet, epidemiology, and endocrinology...
Hormones and the Endocrine System
Textbook of Endocrinology
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This book focuses on hormones, and on how they are produced in very diverse regions of the body in humans and animals. But hormones can be found not only in vertebrates, but also in insects, shellfish, spiders, mollusks, even at the origin of metazoan diversification and exhibit the same pathways...