Endocrinology

Hormones and Synapse, Volume 114 in the Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights advances in the field, with this new volume presenting timely topics, including how growth hormone promotes synaptogenesis, sex hormones and proteins involved in brain plasticity, corticotropin releasing factor modulates excitatory synaptic transmission, bisphenol a and memory: a role for dendritic spines, brain insulin resistance impairs hippocampal synaptic plasticity, estradiol induces synaptic rearrangements, stress and remodeling of hippocampal spine synapses, neurotrophin-3 modulates synaptic transmission, nongenomic neurosteroid modulation of hippocampal dendritic spines, neural sex steroids and hippocampal synaptic plasticity, origin of chemical synapses, neural sex steroids and hippocampal synaptic plasticity, and much more.

This is a unique compilation, by experts worldwide, addressing how diabetes impacts the nervous system.

Steroid Hormone Receptors in Endocrine Physiology and Diseases covers the role of steroid hormones in human physiology and receptor activity in the pathophysiology of disease.

Inflammation and Obesity: A New and Novel Approach to Manage Obesity and its Consequences is a comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of the correlation between obesity and inflammation.

First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press.

Obesity has become the most common chronic disease of the present day, with significant increases in prevalence in populations across the world and all age groups.

This book provides a unique and comprehensive synopsis of the prevention and early diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes.

Obesity continues to accelerate resulting in an unprecedented epidemic that shows no significant signs of slowing down any time soon.

This book covers the subject of steroid profiling for the diagnosis of disorders of steroidogenesis.

Understanding the importance of nanosciences in diabetes is problematic as some texts can be too technical for the novice.

This collection provides methods and techniques employed when culturing, manipulating, quantifying, and functionally assessing retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), vital for better understanding various ocular diseases and for developing novel therapies.

Although impotence may be the most widely recognized manifestation of male sexual dysfunction, many other forms of sexual disorders do not involve the erectile mechanism, from deficiencies of desire to disturbances in ejaculatory function to the failure of detumescence.

The metabolic syndrome is a common syndrome affecting about 20 % of the adult population in Europe, and probably the prevalence is of the same magnitude in other industrialised countries worldwide.

Coronary heart disease is the single most common cause of death in the UK.

Gender differences impact the pathophysiology and clinical burden of diabetes in women.

Sirtuin Biology in Medicine: Targeting New Avenues of Care in Development, Aging, and Disease provides a fascinating and in-depth analysis of sirtuins in the body during normal physiology as well during disease highlighting the targeting of sirtuin-controlled pathways for the development of innovative, efficacious, and safe therapeutic strategies for multiple disorders in the body that ultimately can affect lifespan extension.

Integrating care across disciplines and organisations around the needs of the person with diabetes has been proposed as an approach that could improve care while reducing cost- but has it and can it?

Managing COVID-19 alone can be a difficult in many cases, but for persons with pre-existing conditions such as diabetes the challenge can be all the greater, and specific considerations need to be taken when prescribing treatment to manage them.

More than fifty years after its initial discovery by Rita Levi Montalcini and Stanley Cohen and the proposal of the neurotrophic theory, nerve growth factor (NGF) has become the prototype of a family of biologically active molecules called neurotrophic factors (NTFs).

This reference work is strong informative about the role of the gut microbiome in organism metabolism and fully discusses the relationship between gut alterations and/or gut microbiome-derived metabolites and the pathogenesis of many diseases, as well as recent advances in clinical applications of microbiome and microbial effector molecules.

General Description of Volume:Volume 51 includes reviews papers on cyclic AMP, kinases, polypeptide hormones, steroid hormone receptors, related genes, and members of the gene family.

This book presents as teaching files a collection of cases of thyroid and parathyroid diseases seen at various high-volume endocrinology centers.

Non-vesicular intracellular cholesterol transport is an important mechanism for maintaining membrane cholesterol homeostasis.

Preserving good skin condition has significant quality of life implications for diabetic patients, especially for those suffering from related ulcers or diabetic foot syndrome.

This user-friendly clinical handbook provides an overview of how to go about recognizing and diagnosing inherited metabolic diseases.

Diabetes Digital Health, Telehealth, and Artificial Intelligence explains how to develop and use the emerging technologies of digital health, telehealth, and artificial intelligence to address this important public health problem to deliver new hardware, software, and processes.

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a serious health condition that puts people at a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and atherosclerosis.

Life in the Age of Insulin offers a straightforward and jargon-free narrative account of how insulin was discovered, what it does, why people still struggle to obtain it, and what the future might hold.

Coronary heart disease is the single most common cause of death in the UK.

Hormones and Epigenetics, Volume 122, the latest release in the Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting timely, interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

This edition of Diabetes: Chronic Complications provides both the experienced and trainee endocrinologist with easy-to-read, up-to-date practical guidance on the management of the many complications that can result from the onset of diabetes, such as kidney failure, cardiovascular disease, retinal failure, and cerebrovascular disease.

People with diabetes are 1.

This book fills the need for a detailed examination of the role of Endocannabinoid System in all the body's main organ systems and how dysregulation of that system can lead to disease.

With mounting evidence regarding the role of poor nutrition in the development of chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes, it is no secret that appropriate nutrition is crucial to optimal health.

First published in 1943, VITAMINS AND HORMONES is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press.

Fascia is the biodynamic tissue that connects every muscle, bone, organ, and nerve in the body; it is an emerging field in healthcare and allied health modalities.

Based on his successful treatment of thousands of diabetic patients for over 30 years, Dr.

This brand new title in the Lecture Notes series covers a core element of the medical school curriculum.

Obesity and eating disorders have stubbornly refused to respond to treatment since the 1990's.

Providing care for a young adult with type 1 diabetes during this stage can be difficult as well.

Management of the modern reproductive endocrinology and infertility clinic has become very complex.

This book demonstrates how the latest insights into the physiopathology of the stress response can be integrated into clinical practice.

The book covers all aspects of nutrition and well-being for patients who undergo metabolic and bariatric surgery.

Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes at a Glance The market leading at a Glance series is popular among healthcare students, and newly qualified practitioners for its concise and simple approach and excellent illustrations.

Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) for Prostate/Urologic Health is designed to capture and clinically review the comprehensive database of clinical research articles that support and do not support the utilization of a variety of dietary supplements and other complementary medicines that physicians are exposed to in their daily practice.

Publication of this monograph acknowledges great strides made in research on the zona pellucida during the past decade or so.

This book provides the reader with comprehensive information on the interactions between diabetes and a wide range of comorbid conditions and on disease management in such patients.