Metabolism of Human Diseases Organ Physiology and Pathophysiology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lammert, Eckhard (Editor), Zeeb, Martin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Metabolic diseases.; Biochemistry.; Metabolism.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.; Metabolic Diseases.; Biochemistry, general.; Metabolomics.

“Metabolism of Human Diseases” examines the physiology of key organs (e.g. brain, eye, lung, heart, blood vessels, blood, immune system, gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, liver, fat tissue, kidney, reproductive system, teeth, bone and joints) and how defective metabolism and signaling pathways withi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Brain: Overview
• Major depressive disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Epilepsy
• Parkinson’s disease
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Migraine and cluster headache
• Multiple sclerosis
• Down syndrome
• Eye: Overview.- Age-related macular degeneration
• Glaucoma
• Teeth and bones: Overview: Dental caries
• Osteoporosis
• Joints: Overview.- Osteoarthritis
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Gastrointestinal tract: Overview
• Peptic ulcer disease
• Gastroenteritis
• Lactose intolerance
• Colorectal cancer
• Pancreas: Overview
• Diabetes mellitus
• Liver: Overview
• Cirrhosis
• Fat tissue: Overview
• Metabolic syndrome
• Lung: Overview
• Asthma
• COPD.- Community-acquired pneumonia
• Heart: Overview.- Atherosclerotic heart disease
• Heart failure
• Blood vessels: Overview
• Stroke
• Varicose Veins
• Blood: Overview
• Sickle Cell Disease
• Hyperlipidemia
• Immune system: Overview
• Fever
• Sepsis
• Allergies
• Kidney: Overview
• Hypertension
• Chronic kidney disease
• Gout and hyperuricemia
• Urinary tract infections
• Kidney stones
• Reproductive system: Overview
• Breast cancer
• Prostate cancer
• Cancer: Overview.