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How the Endocrine System Works
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2016.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- How to Use this Book
- Lecture 1: An Overview
- FUNCTION OF HORMONES
- COMPOSITION OF HORMONES
- HOW HORMONES WORK
- HORMONAL REGULATION
- INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE ENDOCRINE AND IMMUNE SYSTEMS
- HORMONE MEASUREMENTS
- NOMENCLATURE OF ENDOCRINE DISORDERS
- HYPOFUNCTION
- TREATMENT OF HORMONE DEFICIENCY
- ENDOCRINE EXCESS SYNDROMES
- IMAGING TESTS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY
- GENETIC TESTING IN ENDOCRINOLOGY
- EPILOGUE
- Lecture 2: Pituitary and Hypothalamus
- PITUITARY AND HYPOTHALAMUS
- GROWTH HORMONE
- PROLACTIN
- PITUTARY TUMORS
- HYPOPITUITARISM
- POSTERIOR PITUITARY
- Lecture 3: The Thyroid
- THE THYROID
- THYROID HORMONES
- EFFECTS OF THYROID HORMONE
- THYROID REGULATION
- HYPOTHYROIDISM
- HYPERTHYROIDISM AND THYROTOXICOSIS
- THYROID NODULES
- DIFFERENTIATED (EPITHELIAL) THYROID CARCINOMA
- MEDULLARY AND ANAPLASTIC THYROID CARCINOMA
- Lecture 4: Adrenal Gland
- THE ADRENAL GLANDS
- ADRENAL MEDULLA
- INCIDENTAL ADRENAL TUMORS
- Lecture 5: Glucose Metabolism
- GLUCOSE METABOLISM
- OBESITY
- HYPOGLYCEMIA
- Lecture 6: Calcium Metabolism
- TRANSPORT AND REGULATION OF CALCIUM
- HYPERCALCEMIA
- HYPOCALCEMIA
- BONE
- VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY
- Lecture 7: Reproductive Endocrinology
- AN INTRODUCTION TO REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY
- REGULATION OF TESTICULAR FUNCTION
- OVARIAN CYCLE REGULATION
- GONADAL DIFFERENTIATION
- EFFECTS OF SEX STEROIDS
- Lecture 8: Lipid Disorders
- LIPIDS
- LIPOPROTEINS
- HOW THE BODY OBTAINS LIPIDS
- PRIMARY VERSUS SECONDARY DYSLIPIDEMIAS
- PHYSICAL FINDINGS IN HYPERLIPIDEMIA
- CONSEQUENCES OF HYPERLIPIDEMIA
- THERAPY OF HYPERLIPIDEMIA
- Lecture 9: Disorders of Multiple Endocrine Glands and Paraneoplastic Syndromes
- POLYENDOCRINE SYNDROMES
- PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES
- Appendix: Clinical Trials, Evidence-Based Medicine, and Reading the Literature
- SENSITIVITY, SPECIFICITY, AND PRETEST PROBABILITY
- PRACTICAL EXAMPLES: NUMBER NEEDED TO TREAT (NNT)
- Glossary
- Index
- End User License Agreement