Integrative Biology of Women’s Health

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Spangenburg, Espen E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Cardiology.; Endocrinology.; Proteins.; Cell biology.; Developmental biology.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.; Cell Biology.; Receptors.; Developmental Biology.

The purpose of Integrative Biology of Women’s Health is to discuss and identify perspective areas from basic science to clinical interventions that are critical to the future of women’s health.  As of now there are critical knowledge gaps that exist in our understanding of physiological and cellular...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Influence of ovarian hormones on skeletal muscle contractility
• 2. Novel Findings in Bone biology: impact on bone health for women
• 3. Estrogen Effects on Skeletal Muscle
• 4. The contribution of ovarian hormones to the cellular regulation of lipid metabolism
• 5. The role of estrogens in the regulation of peripheral glucose dynamics
• 6. The Impact of Estrogen Receptor a Expression in the Pathogenesis of Metabolic Syndrome- 7. Metabolic Health in the Aging Female: Human Perspective
• 8. Transitions Across a Lifetime: Unique Cardiovascular Physiology of Women and Relationship to Cardiovascular Disease Risk
• 9. Estrogen, Cardiac Protection and Aging
• 10. Diet and Exercise Are Potent Modulators of Cardiovascular Disease in Women.                        .