Testosterone (eBook, PDF)

Action - Deficiency - Substitution
Redaktion: Nieschlag, Eberhard; Behre, Hermann M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

New developments in testosterone action and therapy are summarized here by internationally renowned experts. They review both basic and clinical knowledge in 20 chapters. This 2nd edition has been thoroughly revised and extended. The book presents the biochemistry of testosterone, its biosynthesis, metabolism and mechanisms of action in target organs. Effects on bones, muscles, lipids, hair, the prostate, and the brain are considered in separate chapters. Syndromes caused by androgen resistance are described in order to highlight the importance of properly functioning enzymes and receptors in the target organs. The pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and clinical uses and abuses of testosterone preparations are discussed in detail, and side effects of testosterone treatment are reviewed. This is the state-of-the-art book about testosterone action and therapy for endocrinologists, andrologists, urologists and pharmacologists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Seitenzahl: 598
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783642721854
• Artikelnr.: 53316333

Inhaltsangabe

1. Testosterone: An overview of biosynthesis, transport, metabolism and nongenomic actions.- 2. The androgen receptor: Physiology and pathophysiology.- 3. Behavioural correlates of testosterone.- 4. The role of testosterone in spermatogenesis.- 5. Androgens and hair.- 6. Androgens and bone metabolism.- 7. Androgens and muscles.- 8. Androgens, cardiovascular risk factors and atherosclerosis.- 9. Androgens and the prostate.- 10. Pharmacology and clinical uses of testosterone.- 11. Comparative pharmacokinetics of testosterone esters.- 12. Clinical pharmacology of testosterone pellet implants.- 13. Long-term experience with testosterone replacement through scrotal skin.- 14. A permeation-enhanced non-scrotal testosterone transdermal system for the treatment of male hypogonadism.- 15. Percutaneous dihydrotestosterone treatment.- 16. Androgens in male senescence.- 17. Androgen therapy in non-gonadal disease.- 18. Testosterone in male contraception.- 19. Androgen treatment of female-to-male transsexuals.- 20. Abuse of androgens and detection of illegal use.