Bone-Metabolic Functions and Modulators

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bronner, Felix (Editor), Farach-Carson, Mary C. (Editor), Roach, Helmtrud I. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Topics in Bone Biology ; 7
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Metabolic diseases.; Rheumatology.; Medical biochemistry.; Orthopedics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medical Biochemistry.; Metabolic Diseases.; Internal Medicine.

Recent research, which Bone-Metabolic Functions and Modulators expands on, has added new support to the idea that bone not only serves as a support system, but also functions as an integrating organ, with a significant regulatory role for lipid and energy metabolism. Links between physical activity...

Table of Contents:

• Parathyroid Hormone and Parathyroid Hormone-Related Protein: Normal Function, Diseases, and Emerging Therapeutics
• Vitamin D: Normal Function, Metabolism, Diseases, and Emerging Therapeutics
• Gonadal Hormones, Diseases, and Emerging Therapeutics.-    Thyroid and Thyroid Hormone: Normal Function, Diseases, Disorders, Emerging Therapeutics.-    Pituitary Hormones and the Pathophysiology of Osteoporosis
• Calcitonin: Its Physiological Role and Emerging Therapeutics
• Glucocorticoids, Inflammation and Bone
• Diseases of Energy and Lipid Metabolism and Bone: Emerging Therapeutics
• Diseases of Mineral Metabolism and Bone: Emerging Therapeutics for Postmenopausal Osteoporosis
• Renal Diseases and Bone: Emerging Therapeutics
• Wasting Diseases and Metabolic Impact on Bone: Emerging Therapeutics and Treatment Options
• Paget’s Disease of Bone: Pathogenesis and Treatment
• Bone Loss in Space Flight and Countermeasures
• Osteoimmunology: Relation to Disease and Therapy
• Bone and the Ear
• Bone and the cAMP Signaling Pathway: Emerging Therapeutics
• Nervous System Diseases, Disorders and Bone: Emerging Therapeutics and Treatment Options.