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Author:   Gerald Litwack (Emeritus Founding Chair and Professor, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, United States<br>Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University, United States)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Volume:   66
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.960kg
ISBN:  

9780127098661

ISBN 10:   0127098666
Pages:   611
Publication Date:   08 September 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Molecular Biology of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Aldosterone: Its Receptor, Target Genes and Actions Corticosteroid Receptors, 11beta-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase and the Heart Forms of Mineralocorticoid Hypertension PPARs and Cardiovascular System Serotonin and the Neuroendocrine Regulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Health and Disease The Thymosins: Prothymosin alpha, Parathymosin, and Beta-Thymosins- Structure and Function Thymosin-Beta4 Interactions Polypeptide Hormones: Signaling Molecules in Plants Parathyroid Hormone-related Protein (PTHrP): A Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling Protein with Distinct Paracrine, and Intracrine Roles NGF-Dependent Regulation of NADE-Induced Apoptosis Membrane Transport of Folates Vitamin A and Infancy: Biochemical, Functional and Clinical Aspects

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Trained in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dr. Litwack worked on enzymology and the effects of hormones on enzyme systems. Then he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at the Biochemical Institute of the Sorbonne in Paris. Dr. Litwack's first position was as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Rutgers University in 1954. Six years later, he joined the University of Pennsylvania as associate professor and four years later went to the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, as full professor, eventually becoming Deputy Director of the Institute. In 1991, he accepted the Chair of Pharmacology at Thomas Jefferson University where he is also Deputy Director of the Jefferson Cancer Institute and Associate Director for Basic Science in the Jefferson Cancer Center. Dr. Litwack's work has been in the area of mechanisms of steroid receptor action involving especially the glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors, immunophi.

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