Hormone resistance and hypersensitivity states /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
[2002]
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| Series: | Modern endocrinology.
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Table of Contents:
- History of hormone resistance
- Biorhythms, pulsatility, and hormone resistance
- Counterregulatory factors
- Prereceptor hormone resistance
- The role of cell surface receptors in hormone and growth factor signaling : an overview
- Tyrosine kinases
- Resistance to somatostatin analogue therapy
- Mutations of the insulin receptor
- Mechanisms of insulin resistance in obesity
- Endocrine and pharmacologic causes of insulin resistance
- Obesity and hormone resistance : comparing apples with pears
- Insulin resistance in patients with IDDM
- Leptin resistance and obesity
- Molecular mechanisms for resistance to thyroid hormone
- The syndrome of resistance to thyrotropin (TSH)
- Somatic mutations : hot thyroid nodules, clonal adenoma
- Growth hormone resistance (Laron syndrome)
- The PTH/PTHrP receptor in human diseases
- Ca²⁺-sensing receptor abnormalities
- Hereditary vitamin D-resistant rickets
- Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
- Hormone resistance in fetus and mother during pregnancy
- Steroidogenic factor 1 (SF-1)
- Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) : the regulator of the rapid steroidogenic response to trophic stimulation
- X-linked adrenal hypoplasia congenita (AHC)
- Glucocorticoid resistance and hypersensitivity states
- Pseudohypoaldosteronism : sporadic and familial mineralocortoid resistance
- Glucocorticoid modulation of neural and endocrine control of blood pressure : alterations in the sensitivity of vasopressor systems
- Androgen insensitivity syndrome
- Familial male precocious puberty
- Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) resistance - the triple A syndrome
- Estrogen resistance
- Aromatase deficiency
- Luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone receptor-mediated resistance and autonomy states
- Glucocorticoid hypersensitivity
- Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) hypersensitivity syndrome : a preliminary study
- Aromatose excess : in vitro and in vivo evidence of P-450arom overactivity and associated clinical syndromes
- Future perspectives