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  • Endocrinology of Critical Disease

    Edited by K. Patrick Ober ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Expert clinicians comprehensively review the endocrine and metabolic responses to critical illness, explore the mechanisms and outcomes (positive and negative) of those responses to severe stress, and consider possible endocrine interactions that are not yet fully defined. The contributors explain in detail the endocrine response to a multitude of critical illnesses, including cancer, liver ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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  • Sugar Crush

    How to Reduce Inflammation, Reverse Nerve Damage, and Reclaim Good Health

    by Richard P. Jacoby, Raquel Baldelomar ...
    A shocking look at the link between sugar, inflammation, and a host of preventable chronic diseases—perfect for fans of bestselling author Gary Taubes' The Case Against Sugar—from leading nerve surgeon Dr. Richard Jacoby.What Grain Brain did for wheat, this book by a leading peripheral nerve surgeon now does for sugar, revealing how it causes crippling nerve damage throughout the body—in our feet, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology of Sport and Exercise

    Foundations, Markers, Trends

    Edited by Felix Ehrlenspiel, Katharina Strahler ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science
    Psychoneuroendocrinology is the study of the interaction between hormones, the brain and human behaviour. This is the first book to examine psychoneuroendocrinology in the context of sport and exercise, offering a comprehensive review of current research and assessment techniques and highlighting directions for future research.The book explores the links between hormones and behaviour, and draws ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Endocrine Hypertension

    Underlying Mechanisms and Therapy

    Edited by Christian A Koch, George P Chrousos ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The prevalence of hypertension is almost three times as high as that of diabetes mellitus type 2, with both conditions being major risk factors for stroke, ischemic heart disease, cardiac arrhythmias, and heart failure. The exact prevalence of hypertension related to hormonal derangements (endocrine hypertension) is not known but estimated to affect less than 15% of hypertensive patients. Recent ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Metabolic Living

    Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India

    by Harris Solomon ...
    Series series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
    The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining how people in Mumbai, India, experience the porosity between food, fat, the body, and the city. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Cushing's Disease

    An Often Misdiagnosed and Not So Rare Disorder

    Edited by Louise Pace, Edward R. Laws Jr ...
    Cushing's Disease: An Often Misdiagnosed and Not So Rare Disorder reviews the epidemiology of Cushing's, including statistics on the incidence and prevalence of this disease. There are discussions of the signs and symptoms and the most common co-morbidities, such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, amenorrhea, and infertility. Surgical, medical, and radiotherapeutic treatments, ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Vertebrate Endocrinology

    by James A. Carr, David O. Norris ...
    Vertebrate Endocrinology represents more than just a treatment of the endocrine system-it integrates hormones with other chemical bioregulatory agents not classically included with the endocrine system. It provides a complete overview of the endocrine system of vertebrates by first emphasizing the mammalian system as the basis of most terminology and understanding of endocrine mechanisms and then ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • Female Contraception

    Update and Trends

    Edited by Thomas Rabe, Ludwig Kiesel, Benno Runnebaum ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Contraceptives have always provided ground for controversy. This book describes and discusses latest findings concerning the advantages as well as hazard and risk factors of contraception. The clinical impact of oral contraceptives on metabolism is particularly highlighted. In addition, behavioral methods, intrauterine devices, implants and modern approaches in animal and clinical research in the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Hearing and Hormones

    Edited by Andrew H. Bass, Joseph A. Sisneros, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R Fay ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book reviews the growing literature that is consistent with the hypothesis that hormones can regulate auditory physiology and perception across a broad range of animal taxa, including humans. Understanding how hormones modulate auditory function has far reaching implications for advancing our knowledge in the basic biomedical sciences and in understanding the evolution of acoustic ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Growth Hormone and Somatomedins during Lifespan

    Edited by Eugenio E. Müller, Daniela Cocchi, Vittorio Locatelli ...
    The various congresses on growth hormone (GH) which have been held in Milan since 1967, the Milan Congresses, have witnessed over 25 years the tremendous expansion of a research field that was based initially upon the scarce knowledge of the biological properties of a protein. GH, whose chemical structure had just been identified and a radioimmunoassay developed for its measurement in blood, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Energetics of Muscular Exercise

    by Guido Ferretti ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses the maximal power and capacity of the three major biochemical pathways - aerobic (oxygen consumption), anaerobic lactic (muscle lactate accumulation in absence of oxygen consumption), and anaerobic alactic (phosphocreatine hydrolysis) metabolism - as well as the factors that limit them. It also discusses the metabolic and cardio-pulmonary mechanisms of the dynamic response to ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • The Embryo

    Normal and Abnormal Development and Growth

    Edited by Michael G. Chapman, J. Gedis Grudzinskas, Tim Chard ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    A variety of new techniques that promise to revolutionize the clinical management of early pregnancy are fully detailed in this state-of-the-art book. Leading international researchers describe fast-moving topics such as embryo manipulation and the diagnosis of congenital abnormalities. The technology of assisted reproduction has made it possible to study living embryonic material for the first ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD