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Author:   Derek J. Chadwick ,  Jamie A. Goode
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Volume:   No. 242
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.10cm
Weight:   0.602kg
ISBN:  

9780471486367

ISBN 10:   0471486361
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   09 January 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Chair's Introduction (J.D. Veldhuis) Endocrine aspects of healthy ageing in men(A.W. van den Beld andS.W.J. Lamberts) Ageing, stress and the brain (B.J. Carroll) Alterations in the ageing corticotropic stress-response axis (P.Bjorntorp) Male reproductive ageing: using the Brown Norway rat as a model forman (C. Wang et al) Male reproductive ageing: human fertility, androgens and hormonedependent disease (D.J. Handelsman) Mechanisms of conjoint failure of the somatotropic and gonadal axesin ageing men (J.D. Veldhuis et al) Effects of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor 1deficiency on ageing and 1ongevity (Z. Laron) The role of the insulin-like growth factor 1 and insulin in ageingand atherosclerosis (A. Ruiz-Torres) The ageing female reproductive axis -1 Henry G. Burger et al) The ageing female reproductive axis II: ovulatory changes withperimenopause (J. C. Prior) The thyroid axis in ageing (H Leitolf et al) Critical illness as a model of hypothalamic ageing (G. Van denBerghe and S.M. Shalet) Glucose tolerance, glucose utilization and insulin secretion inageing (D.Elahi et al) Endocrine causes of age-related bone loss and osteoporosis (B.L.Riggs) Ageing and water homeostasis (D. Robertson et al) Summing Up (J.D. Veldhuis)

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...This book certainly represents a useful starting point to review our current knowledge. (The Endocrinologist, July 2002) ...The book is helpful to understand the recent advances in this research field... (Endocrine Journal, June 2002) ...The Novartis Foundation should be congratulates for editing the very instructive discussions... (Jnl of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol.15, No.6, 2002) ...I would recommend this book for specialists in the field of endocrinology... (Gerontology, Vol.49, No.3, 2003) ...The Novartis Foundation should be congratulated for editing the very instructive discussions. (Journal of Endocrine Genetics, Vol.3, No.2, 2002)

...This book certainly represents a useful starting point to review our current knowledge. (The Endocrinologist, July 2002) ...The book is helpful to understand the recent advances in this research field... (Endocrine Journal, June 2002) ...The Novartis Foundation should be congratulates for editing the very instructive discussions... (Jnl of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol.15, No.6, 2002) ...I would recommend this book for specialists in the field of endocrinology... (Gerontology, Vol.49, No.3, 2003) ...The Novartis Foundation should be congratulated for editing the very instructive discussions. (Journal of Endocrine Genetics, Vol.3, No.2, 2002)

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Derek J. Chadwick and Jamie A. Goode are editors for Endocrine Facets of Ageing and other scientific titles.

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