Endocrinology and Metabolism

3. Revised Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-07-020448-5
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Buch, Englisch, 2000 Seiten, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 285 mm, Gewicht: 4763 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Felig, Philip

Baxter

Baxter, John

Frohman

Frohman, Lawrence

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: General Endocrinology.Introduction to the Endocrine System.The Clinical Manifestations of Endocrine Disease.Gene Expression and Recombinant DNA in Endocrinology and Metabolism.Biosynthesis, Secretion, and Metabolism of Hormones.Molecular Mechanisms of Hormone Action: Control of Target Cell Function by Peptide, Steroid, and Thyroid Hormones.Hormone Assays.Part II: Neuroendocrinology and the Pituitary.Neuroendocrine Physiology and Disease.Diseases of the Anterior Pituitary.Posterior Pituitary.Part III: Thyroid Disease.The Thyroid: Physiology, Hyperthyroidism, Hypothyroidism, and the Painful Thyroid.The Thyroid: Nodules and Neoplasia.Part IV: Adrenal Disease.The Adrenal Cortex.Diseases of the Sympathochromaffin System.The Endocrinology of Hypertension.Glucocorticoid Therapy.Part V: Gonadal Disease.The Testis.The Ovary: Basic Principles and Concepts.A: Physiology.B: Clinical.Sexual Differentiation.Part VI: Fuel Metabolism.The Endocrine Pancreas: Diabetes Mellitus.Hypoglycemia.The Obesities.Disorders of Lipid Metabolism.Part VII: Calcium and Bone Metabolism.Mineral Metabolism.Metabolic Bone Disease.Nephrolithiasis.Part VIII: Miscellaneous Disorders.Disorders of Growth and Development.Gastrointestinal Hormones and Carcinoid Tumors and Syndrome.Multiglandular Endocrine Disorders.Ectopic Hormone Production.Hormone-Responsive Tumors.Prostaglandins, Kallikreins and Kinins, and Bartter's Syndrome.Endocrinology of Aging.Endocrinology of Behaviour and Psychiatric Disorders.Hormones and Athletic Performance.

Über Autor(innen)

Felig, Philip
Philip Felig, MD (affiliated with Lennox Hill Hospital) is probably the number one endocrinologist in New York and a world authority. The fact that he is in clinical practice is actually the strength of the book.