The Endocrinology of Aging / / ed. by Werner A. Scherbaum, Winfried Rossmanith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Medicine and Life Sciences 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Born, J.,; Dodt, Ch.,; Duntas, L.,; Fehm, H. L.,; Grab, B. M.,; Hensen, J.,; Heuser, I.,; Iranmanesh, A.,; Keck, F. S.,; Kern, W.,; Kerner, W.,; Kubbutat, E.,; Lauritzen, C.,; Loos, U.,; Meites, J.,; Rossmanith, W. G.,; Scherbaum, W. A.,; Scholz, G. H.,; Späth-Schwalbe, E.,; Swaab, D. F.,; Veldhuis, J. D.,; Vermeulen, A.,; Wagner, B.,; Wieberneit, J.,; Wolf, Ch.-F.,; Wüster, Chr.,; Ziegler, R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Rossmanith, Winfried,; Scherbaum, Werner A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (175 p.)

Table of Contents

• i-iv
• 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