Principles of sex-based differences in physiology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Miller, Virginia L., Hay, Meredith
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004.
Series:Advances in molecular and cell biology ; 34.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Sex chromosomes
  • Endocrine control of sexual differentiation : effects of the maternal-fetal environment and endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • General mechanisms of steroid receptors and receptor coregulator action
  • Non-genomic actions of hormones
  • Hormone receptor polymorphisms
  • Sex, hormones and the endothelium
  • Sex hormones and the vascular smooth muscle
  • Cardiovascular membrane excitability and the influence of sex and sex steroids
  • Sex-differences in electrophysiology of the heart and cardiac arrhythmias
  • Sex differences in cardiac muscle and remodeling
  • Reflex control of the circulation
  • Sex differences in hypertension and renal injury
  • Influence of sex hormones on the neuromuscular junction
  • Sex and hormonal influences on skeletal muscle, differentiation and contractile mechanisms
  • Sex-based differences in substrate metabolism
  • Sex differences in skeletal development
  • Sex differences in steroid-induced synaptic plasticity
  • Hormones and the developing brain
  • Mechanisms of sex-based neuropathologies
  • Sex differences in autoimmunity
  • Influence of hormones and sex platelet functions
  • Sex differences in wound healing