(PDF) Growth Hormone Deficiency by Laurie E. Cohen

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Discovery of Growth Hormone and Synthesis of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone.- Part I Mechanisms of Human Growth Hormone
Secretion and Action.- 2. Growth Hormone
Physiology.- 3. Sex Steroids and Growth.- 4.
Influence of Thyroid Hormone on Growth Hormone Secretion and Action.- 5.
Undernutrition, Inflammation and Catabolic Illness and Growth Hormone Secretion.-
6. Obesity and Growth Hormone Secretion.- 7. Metabolic Benefits of Growth
Hormone Therapy.- Part II Diagnosis of Human Growth Hormone Deficiency.- 8. Laboratory
Diagnosis of Growth Hormone Deficiency in Children.- 9. Laboratory Diagnosis of
Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults.- 10. Pituitary Gland Imaging in
Growth Hormone Deficiency.- Part III Etiologies of Human Growth Hormone
Deficiency.- 11. Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone Receptor and Growth Hormone
Gene Abnormalities.- 12. Combined Pituitary Hormone Deficiency.- 13. Cranial
Radiation and Growth Hormone Deficiency.- 14. Traumatic Brain Injury and Growth
Hormone Deficiency.- 15. Syndromes Associated with Growth Hormone
Deficiency.