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Title: |
Sex Hormones |
| Sub-title: |
Development, Regulation & Disorders |
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| Edited by: |
Anne B Hoffmann |
| ISBN10-13: |
161324715X : 9781613247150 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
180x260mm |
| Pages: |
220 |
| Weight: |
.584 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - January 2012 |
| List Price: |
199.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Subjects: |
Endocrinology |
| Although sex hormones are generally thought to be involved mainly in reproductive functions, they are also involved in antioxidant mechanisms, in cardiovascular and brain functions, and in incidence of some diseases. In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the development, regulation and disorders relating to sex hormones. Topics discussed include sex hormones are their implication in metabolic disease, and neurological disorders such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, depression and migraine; the non-reproductive effects of sex hormones and the cardiovascular system; the sources and presence of steroid sex hormones in freshwater ecosystems and sex hormone receptors and epigenetics in breast cancer. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface; Sex Hormones & Hypothalamus; Non Reproductive Effects of Sex Hormones & the Cardiovascular System; Sex Hormone Receptors in Metabolic Syndrome; Antiestrogen or Estrogen as Anticancer Drug; Sex Hormones & Oxidative Stress in Metabolic Syndrome; Sources, Presence, Analysis, & Fate of Steroid Sex Hormones in Freshwater Ecosystems: A Review; Sex Hormone Receptors & Epigenetics in Breast Cancer; Index. |
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