Growth Hormone Deficiency Physiology and Clinical Management /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Cohen, Laurie E. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Endocrinology.; Metabolic diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Metabolic Diseases.

Providing the most current information on the function of human growth hormone (GH) and the consequences of its deficiency, this practical yet comprehensive text is divided into three sections. Part one describes the mechanisms of GH secretion and action, including the physiology of GH and its regul...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Discovery of Growth Hormone and Synthesis of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone
• Part I Mechanisms of Human Growth Hormone Secretion and Action
• 2. Growth Hormone Physiology
• 3. Sex Steroids and Growth
• 4. Influence of Thyroid Hormone on Growth Hormone Secretion and Action
• 5. Undernutrition, Inflammation and Catabolic Illness and Growth Hormone Secretion
• 6. Obesity and Growth Hormone Secretion
• 7. Metabolic Benefits of Growth Hormone Therapy
• Part II Diagnosis of Human Growth Hormone Deficiency
• 8. Laboratory Diagnosis of Growth Hormone Deficiency in Children
• 9. Laboratory Diagnosis of Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults
• 10. Pituitary Gland Imaging in Growth Hormone Deficiency
• Part III Etiologies of Human Growth Hormone Deficiency
• 11. Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone Receptor and Growth Hormone Gene Abnormalities
• 12. Combined Pituitary Hormone Deficiency
• 13. Cranial Radiation and Growth Hormone Deficiency
• 14. Traumatic Brain Injury and Growth Hormone Deficiency
• 15. Syndromes Associated with Growth Hormone Deficiency.