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Main description:
In Adrenal Disorders, a panel of distinguished physicians and researchers select the most relevant new findings and integrate them into the existing body of clinical knowledge on adrenal pathologies. The book includes important reviews of disturbances in cortisol homeostasis, and new concepts regarding adrenal tumors and hereditary adrenal diseases. Also discussed are mineralocorticoids and the syndromes of mineralocortoid excess and aldosterone synthase deficiency. Authoritative and insightful, Adrenal Disorders provides physicians and scientists with a comprehensive, state-of-the-art practical guide to the devastating diseases of the adrenals that are so often difficult to diagnose and treat.
Contents:
Part I. The Adrenal Gland: Physiology
Ontogeny of the Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis
Michel Grino, Nadia Dakine, Odile Paulmyer-Lacroix, and Charles Oliver
Adrenal Organogenesis and Steroidogenesis: Role of Nuclear Nuclear Receptor Steroidogenic Factor-1, DAX-1, and Estrogen Receptor
Meera S. Ramayya
Reappraisal of Adrenal Zonation Theories Based on the Differential Regulation of Apoptosis, G. W. Wolkersdoerfer and Stefan R. Bornstein
Pharmacology of Glucocorticoids: An Overview
Achille Gravanis and Andrew N. Margioris
Glucocorticoid Catabolism and the 11_-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase System
Jonathan R. Seckl
Androgens of Adrenal Origin
George Mastorakos and Anthony G. Doufas
Structure, Function, and Regulated Expression of the Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory (StAR) Protein: Molecular Insights into the Acute Seroidogenic Response of the Adrenals and Gonads to Trophic Stimulation
Caleb B. Kallen, Futoshi Arakane, Teruo Sugawara, Marianthi Kiriakidou, Staci E. Pollack, Hidemichi Watari, Lane K. Christenson, Michiko Watari, and Jerome F. Strauss III
Regulation of Adrenocortical Function by the Sympathoadrenal System: Physiology and Pathology
Monika Ehrhart-Bornstein and Stefan R. Bornstein
Interleukin (IL)-1 Family of Cytokines and Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone (CRH) in the Adrenal Gland
Andrew N. Margioris, Erene Dermitzaki, Maria Venihaki, and Achille Gravanis
Part II. The Adrenal Gland: Pathophysiology
Overview of Hyper- and Hypocortisolism
W.W. de Herder and S.W.J. Lambert
ACTH Resistance, Constantine Tsigos. Syndromes of Ectopic ACTH Secretion: Recent Pathophysiological Aspects
Yves de Keyzer, Marie Laure Raffin-Sanson, Agnes Picon, and Xavier Bertagna
Clinical Presentations and Diagnosis of Cushing's Syndrome
Andrew N. Margioris and George P.Chrousos
The Desmopressin Test: A New Tool in the Functional Evaluation of the Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Patients with Cushing's Syndrome
S. Tsagarakis and N. Thalassinos
PseudoCushing Syndromes
Theodore Friedman
Adrenocortical Tumors and Oncogenes
Martin Reincke
Management of Adrenal Cancer
David E. Schteingart and Dominic Homan
Adrenal Incidentalomas
Bruno Allolio
Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: 21-Hydroylase Deficiency
Maria I. New
Steroid 11_-Hydroxylase Deficiency
Perrin C. White
Micronodular Adrenal Disease and the Syndrome of Myxomas, Spotty Skin Pigmentation, and Endocrine Overactivity
Constantine A. Stratakis
Congenital Lipoid Adrenal Hyperplasia
Walter L. Miller
Congenital Adrenal Hypoplasia
Michael Peter and Wolfgang G. Sippell
The HPA Axis and HIV Infection
Daniel S. Donovan, Jr. and Robert G. Dluhy
Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis and Obesity
Per Bjoerntorp and Roland Rosmond
Aldosterone Synthase Deficiency
Michael Peter and Wolfgang G. Sippel
Mineralocorticoid Excess Syndromes
Richard D. Gordon
Pheochromocytoma: Progress in Diagnosis, Therapy, and Genetics
Karel Pacak, George P. Chrousos, Christian A. Koch, Jacques W. M. Lenders, and Graeme Eisenhofer
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Publication date: November, 2010
Pages: 444
Weight: 839g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Endocrinology
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