Research Catalog

Title

Growth hormone in adults : physiological and clinical aspects / edited by Anders Juul and Jens O.L. Jørgensen.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Juul, Anders
• Jørgensen, Jens O. L.

Description

xiv, 377 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subjects

• Growth Hormone > physiology
• Somatotropin > Physiological effect
• Growth Hormone > therapeutic use
• Somatotropin > Therapeutic use
• Growth Hormone > drug effects
• Dwarfism, Pituitary

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction / Niels E. Skakkeboek -- 1. Physiological regulators of growth hormone secretion / Mark L. Hartman -- 2. Actions of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-I on the growth plate / Anders Lindahl, Claes Ohlsson and Olle G. P. Isaksson -- 3. Insulin-like growth factors and IGF-binding proteins: their use for diagnosis of growth hormone deficiency / Werner F. Blum -- 4. Growth hormone and human in vivo metabolism / Niels Moller -- 5. Metabolic effects of insulin-like growth factor-I / Mehboob A. Hussain, Ole Schmitz, Jens Sandahl Christiansen, Jurgen Zapf and E. Rudolf Froesch -- 6. Growth hormone determination in serum from patients with growth disorders / Hans Orskov, Jorgen Weeke, Jan Frystyk, Andreas Kaal, Sten Nielsen, Christian Skjoerboek, Jens Sandahl Christiansen, Niels Moller and Jens O. L. Jorgensen -- 7. Pharmacological aspects of growth hormone replacement therapy / Torben Laursen --
• 8. The syndrome of growth hormone deficiency in adults / Ross C. Cuneo, Franco Salomon and Peter H. Sonksen -- 9. The diagnosis of growth hormone deficiency in adults / David M. Hoffman and Ken K. Y. Ho -- 10. Monitoring growth hormone replacement therapy / Andrew A. Toogood, Sarah J. Holmes and Stephen M. Shalet -- 11. Effects of growth hormone on glucose and lipid metabolism / Franco Salomon, Ross C. Cuneo and Peter H. Sonksen -- 12. Effects of growth hormone upon body composition / Jens Sandahl Christiansen -- 13. Effects of growth hormone on human fluid homeostasis / Jens Moller -- 14. Adult growth hormone (GH) deficiency and effects of GH treatment on muscle strength, cardiac function and exercise performance / Anders Juul -- 15. Adult growth hormone deficiency, decreased sweating and impaired thermoregulation / Anders Juul, Katharina Main, Nis Hjortskov, Lisbet Toekker Jepsen, Bodil Nielsen, Jens Halkjoer-Kristensen and Niels E. Skakkeboek --
• 16. Growth hormone (GH) therapy in GH deficient adults: effects on bone and mineral metabolism / Jean-Marc Kaufman and Mark Vandeweghe -- 17. Effects on cardiovascular risk factors / Thord Rosen -- 18. Growth hormone administration stimulates extrathyroidal conversion of thyroxine to triiodothyronine: possible physiological implications / Jens O. L. Jorgensen and Jorgen Weeke -- 19. Psychosocial and central nervous effects / Jan-Ove Johansson, Lena Wiren and Bengt-Ake Bengtsson -- 20. Growth hormone and aging / Kieran O'Connor, Thomas E. Stevens and Marc R. Blackman.

ISBN

0521480078 (hardback)

LCCN

95026596

OCLC

• 33949777
• ocm33949777
• SCSB-4780994

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries