Screen LibraryThe endocrinology of aging /
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| Published: |
De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
2012. ©1995 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110876765 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110876765.jpg |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (x, 175 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783110876765 |
| Index Number: | QP187 |
| CLC: | R339.34 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- List of first-mentioned contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- The human hypothalamus in aging and dementia -- Age-related changes in psychoneuroendocrinological function -- Age-dependent changes in brain neurotransmitters and their influence on neuroendocrine functions -- Thirst and osmoregulation in the elderly -- The neuroendocrinology of the peri- and postmenopause -- Estrogen-progestagen substitution during late postmenopause and old-age -- Age-dependent changes in growth hormone secretion in adults -- Growth hormone and aging -- Diagnosis and treatment of thyroid diseases in the aging -- The influence of aging on thyroxine 5 -deiodinating activity in cultivated adipocyte precursors -- Degradation of intravenously administered thyrotropinreleasing hormone in the elderly -- Pituitary-adrenocortical dysfunctions in the elderly -- Function of the hypothalamo-pituitary testicular axis in elderly men -- Diabetes mellitus in the elderly -- Osteoporosis |