Research Catalog

Title

GHRH, GH, and IGF-1 : basic and clinical advances / Marc R. Blackman ... [et al.], editors.

Publication

New York : Springer-Verlag, c1995.

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Additional Authors

• Blackman, Marc R.
• Serono Symposia, USA
• Symposium on GHRH, GH, and IGF-1: Basic and Clinical Advances (1993 : San Diego, Calif.)

Description

xix, 319 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings
• San Diego (Calif., 1993)
• Growth hormone releasing factor > Congresses
• Somatomedin > Congresses
• Somatotropin > Congresses
• Growth Hormone
• Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone
• Insulin-Like Growth Factor I
• Growth Disorders > therapy

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings
• San Diego (Calif., 1993)
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Proceedings of the Symposium on GHRH, GH, and IGF-1: Basic and Clinical Advances, sponsored by Serono Symposia USA, Inc. held December 9 to 12, 1993, in San Diego, California"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Physiology of the Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone-Somatostatin-Growth Hormone-Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Axis / Lawrence A. Frohman -- 2. Role of Somatostatin in the Regulation of Growth Hormone Secretion / Seymour Reichlin -- 3. Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone and Growth Hormone Releasing Peptides / Mary Lee Vance, Joseph A. Aloi, Mark L. Hartman, Susan E. Kirk and Michael O. Thorner -- 4. GH Binding Protein, GH Receptors, and Domains Involved in Signal Transduction / P. A. Kelly, J. Finidori, M.-C. Postel-Vinay, M. Edery, L. Goujon, A. Sotiropoulos, H. Dinerstein and J.-J. Lebrun -- 5. Insulin-Like Growth Factors During Development / Derek LeRoith, Stefan Neuenschwander, Antolii Koval, Charyse Sindler and Charles T. Roberts, Jr. -- 6. Anabolic Effects of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone and Insulin-Like Growth Factor I in Human Disease / Raymond L. Hintz -- 7. Growth Hormone in Children with Chronic Renal Disease: Some Metabolic Considerations / D. F. Geary and K. Welch -- 8. Growth Hormone: The Visible Difference in Burn Care / Michael J. Muller, Thomas C. Rutan and David N. Herndon -- 9. Effects of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone on Body Composition and Metabolism in HIV-Associated Wasting / K. Mulligan, C. Grunfeld, M. K. Hellerstein, R. A. Neese and M. Schambelan -- 10. Administration of Growth Hormone as an Adjunct to Nutritional Support in Critical Illness / Thomas R. Ziegler -- 11. Strategies for the Use of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone and Insulin-Like Growth Factor I in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / Barry W. Festoff, Shi X. Yang and David Stong -- 12. Contemporary Issues in Growth and Development: An Overview / George A. Werther -- 13. Use of Recombinant IGF-I in Syndromes of GH Insensitivity / Ron G. Rosenfeld, Arlan L. Rosenbloom and Jaime Guevara-Aguirre -- 14. Use of Growth Hormone in Non-Growth-Hormone-Deficient Children: Physiologic, Pharmacologic, and Ethical Issues / Barry B. Bercu, Howard J. Heinze and Richard F. Walker -- 15. Growth Hormone Treatment of Nonelderly Adults with GH Deficiency / Jens S. Christiansen, Jens O. L. Jorgensen, Nina Vahl, Anders Juul, Jorn Muller and Niels E. Skakkebaek -- 16. Overview of Growth Hormone and IGF-I Effects on Intermediary Metabolism and Bone / Shlomo Melmed -- 17. Effects of rhGH on Glucose, Lipid, and Amino Acid Metabolism / Kenneth C. Copeland and K. Sreekumarun Nair -- 18. Metabolic Effects of IGF-I: Implications for the Therapy of Diabetes Mellitus / Robert S. Sherwin, Walter P. Borg and Susan D. Boulware -- 19. Modulation of Responses to GH and IGF-I by Nutritional Variables / David K. Snyder -- 20. Growth Hormone Effects on the Adult Skeleton / Robert Marcus -- 21. Insulin-Like Growth Factors and Skeletal Remodeling / Julie Paiterson, Jay R. Shapiro and Marc R. Blackman -- 22. Growth Hormone and Aging: A Brief Review / S. Mitchell Harman and Marc R. Blackman -- 23. Potential Benefits and Risks in Treating the Hyposomatomedinemia and Hypogonadism of Elderly Men / Daniel Rudman and Kaup R. Shetty -- 24. Effects of Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone Administration in Healthy Aging Men / M. R. Blackman, J. Vittone, E. Corpas, J. Busby-Whitehead, T. Stevens, M. F. Bellantoni, M. Rogers, K. Stewart, J. Tobin, R. Spencer and S. M. Harman -- 25. Effects of Recombinant Human Insulin-Like Growth Factor I in Aging / Andrew R. Hoffman, Robert Marcus, Raymond L. Hintz, Gail Butterfield, Janice Thompson, Laura Ghiron, Steven Lieberman, Elisabetta Dall'Aglio and Gian Paolo Ceda -- 26. Growth Hormone and Immune Function in the Elderly / William H. Adler, James E. Nagel, S. Mitchell Harman, Emiliano Corpas and Marc R. Blackman -- 27. Treatment with Growth Hormone: Focus on Specificity with a View to the Future / Jesse Roth.

ISBN

0387944044 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^94036150^

OCLC

• 31206779
• SCSB-14235705

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library