Endocrinology

Over the last 25 years it has become more and more evident that salivary gland pathology is by far the subject within head and neck pathology that ...

The revised and updated fourth edition of Practical Endocrinology and Diabetes in Children offers a practical, highly clinical and up-to-date handb...

In 2001 Graves' Disease: A Practical Guide described the causes, diagnosis, treatment and disease course of Graves' disease and other hyperthyro...

Androgens have diverse effects at both a physiological and behavioural level. These steroid hormones are present right from the first weeks of gest...

Air pollution has been associated with significant adverse health effects, including increased morbidity and mortality. The global increase in the ...

The human body''''s endocrine system includes eight major glands, which make hormones and travel through the bloodstream to tissues or organs. In t...

Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease of unknown etiology. It can occur at all ages, with the incidence peaking at 20 to 40 years. Thi...

Ghrelin is a 28-amino acid peptide mainly secreted by the stomach. To better understand the role of ghrelin signalling, this book first explores th...

This book first proposes a noninvasive screening method for diabetes based on the thermoregulation of the peroneal vessel. Since diabetes affects t...

The pandemic of obesity in the majority of countries of the world has become a major health problem: obesity leads to a number of serious diseases ...

The Endocrine System at a Glance provides a highly illustrated and unambiguous introduction to the basic principles and mechanisms of endocrinology...

Hyperthyroidism is caused by the overproduction of thyroid hormone. Clinically, it is manifested by a state of hypermetabolism associated with card...

Wide variety of pesticides and other synthetic chemicals may disrupt the normal function of the endocrine system, cause alteration and also attack ...

The pineal gland, epiphysis, is a small endocrine gland in the brain. since Descartes it is known organ, but in the past decade it has been the sub...

Dyslipidemia is an abnormal amount of lipids in the blood. In this book, the authors present topical research on the causes, diagnosis and treatmen...

Oxytocin is a mammalian hormone that also acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain. Oxytocin is a peptide of nine amino acids (a nonapeptide). It is...

Endocrine feedback system may not be appreciated by conventional hormone level estimation at a single point of time. Our body also needs to be look...

Neuroendocrinology is the study of the interactions between the nervous system and the endocrine system. The concept arose from the recognition tha...