The Biologic Role of Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) / / ed. by M. Kalimi, W. Regelson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Reference Works 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Arnold, B. H.,; Bannasch, P.,; Barrett-Connor, E.,; Berdanier, Carolyn D.,; Blackard, William G.,; Blethen, S.L.,; Bonnet, Kenneth A.,; Brown, Richard P.,; Calabrese, Vincent P.,; Chasalow, F.I.,; Cleary, Margot P.,; Clore, John N.,; Coleman, D.L.,; Eriksson, B. F. H.,; Falrman, D.K.,; Fauble, Thomas J.,; Feo, F.,; Fitten, L. Jaime,; Fitzmaurice, M.A.,; Franson, Richard,; Gudas, Stephen,; Harrington, M.G.,; Isaacs, Edward R.,; Kalimi, Mohammed,; Khalid, Mona,; Khaw, K-T,; Kurzman, I.D.,; Lekas, P.,; Loria, Roger M.,; Loria, Roger,; Lu, Ruisheng,; MacEwen, E.G.,; Maki-Haffa, A.L.,; Mayer, D.,; McGrath, M. S.,; Merril, C.R.,; Milewich, L.,; Nestler, John E.,; Opoku, Justicia,; Padgett, David A.,; Pascale, R.,; Pashko, L.L.,; Prough, R.A.,; Qureshi, Dastgir,; Regelson, William,; Riley, Vernon,; Roberts, Eugene,; Schinazi, R. F.,; Schwartz, A.G.,; Sholley, Milton,; Sunderland, T.,; Weber, E.,; Wu, H-Q.,; Yanal, Shafagoj,
• HerausgeberIn: Kalimi, M.,; Regelson, W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: Reprint 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (450 p.) :; Num. ills., tabs.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- Contents -- DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE (DHEA): THE PRECURSOR STEROID: INTRODUCTORY REMARKS -- THE BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE -- DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE (DHEA) AND ITS SULFATE (DHEAS) AS NEURAL FACILITATORS: EFFECTS ON BRAIN TISSUE IN CULTURE AND ON MEMORY IN YOUNG AND OLD MICE. A CYCLIC GMP HYPOTHESIS OF ACTION OF DHEA AND DHEAS IN NERVOUS SYSTEM AND OTHER TISSUES -- Serum Steroid Levels in Two Old Men with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Before, During, and After Oral Administration of Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). Pregnenolone Synthesis May Become Rate-Limiting in Agin -- COGNITIVE EFFECTS OF DHEA REPLACEMENT THERAPY -- ORAL DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS. RESULTS OF A PHASE ONE, OPEN STUDY -- DEHYDROEPIANDOSTERONE IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: POSITIVE EFFECTS ON THE FATIGUE SYNDROME IN A NON-RANDOMIZED STUDY -- REDUCED PLASMA DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE CONCENTRATIONS IN HIV INFECTION AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE -- IMMUNE RESPONSE FACILITATION AND RESISTANCE TO VIRUS AND BACTERIAL INFECTIONS WITH DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE (DHEA) -- DHEA AND THYMUS INTEGRITY IN THE MOUSE -- Effect of Dehydroepiandrosterone in Lymphocytes and Macrophages Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Viruses -- DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE (DHEA) AND DIABETIC SYNDROMES IN MICE -- REGULATION OF DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE METABOLISM BY INSULIN, AND METABOLIC EFFECTS OF DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE IN MAN -- THE ROLE OF DHEA IN OBESITY -- DHEA AND MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION -- EFFECT OF DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE ON RODENT LIVER MICROSOMAL, MITOCHONDRIAL, AND PEROXISOMAL PROTEINS -- THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DHEAS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: THE RANCHO BERNARDO STUDY -- DHEA EFFECTS ON CHOLESTEROL AND LIPOPROTEINS -- DIGITALIS-LIKE MATERIALS AND DHEA-SULFATE -- GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE AND THE RELATION OF DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE TO CARCINOGENESIS -- MODULATION OF LIVER CARCINOGENESIS BY DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE -- DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE ALTERS THE MORPHOLOGY AND PHOSPHOLIPID CONTENT OF CULTURED HUMAN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS -- Studies on the Biochemical Action and Mechanism of Dehydroepiandrosterone -- DHEA: SOME THOUGHTS AS TO ITS BIOLOGIC AND CLINICAL ACTION -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Backmatter