Insulin-Like Growth Factors in Health & Disease, An Issue of Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics

9781455738564

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  • Author/s: Perks, Claire M.; Holly, Jeff M. P.
  • Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
  • ISBN: 9781455738564
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 960 pages
  • Publication date: 9 August 2012

Overview

Provides essential information about insulin-like growth factors (IGFs). This title covers IGFs and IGF system in the following: growth disorders; adipogenesis and obesity; muscle function and disease; bone; cancer; cardiac function and disease; normal and diseased kidney; peripheral nervous systems; and, IGF-1 central/degenerative diseases.

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This issue of "Endocrinology Clinics", authored by experts worldwide, provides essential updates about insulin-like growth factors (IGFs). The physiology is examined, including the latest in what we have learned from animal models as well as humans. The issue also covers IGFs and IGF system in the following: growth disorders; adipogenesis and obesity; muscle function and disease; bone; cancer; cardiac function and disease; normal and diseased kidney; peripheral nervous systems; gastrointestinal diseases; diabetes and metabolism; and, IGF-1 central/degenerative diseases.