Human Growth Hormone: Research and Clinical Practice (Contemporary Endocrinology, 19)

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Offers a current overview of developments in growth hormone physiology, clinical applications, molecular pharmacology of GH receptors, a new orphan receptor controlling GH release, and the effects of aging on GH release. For researchers and clinicians. DNLM: Somatotrophin--metabolism.

In a state-of-the-art synthesis of basic science and clinical practice, Roy Smith and a distinguished panel of researchers and clinicians review GH regulation and its action at the molecular level, and describe the basis for GH deficiency and the use of GH as therapy in a variety of clinical situations. The clinical presentation moves beyond the treatment of GH-deficient children to include the genetics of GH-deficiency, GH-deficiency in adults, osteoporosis, Syndrome X, sleep quality, GH in AIDS patients, GHRH in clinical studies. Timely and innovative, Human Growth Hormone: Research and Clinical Practice will benefit both basic and clinical researchers, as well as those clinical endocrinologists who want to use growth hormone not only in treating children, but also in treating adult disorders, including those associated with metabolic disease.

The book contains predominantly black-and-white illustrations, with some color illustrations.

The authors present the latest information on the clinical use of human growth hormone to treat a variety of endocrine-related disorders.

"In a state-of-the-art synthesis of basic science and clinical practice, Roy Smith and a distinguished panel of researchers and clinicians review GH regulation and its action at the molecular level, and describe the basis for GH deficiency and the use of GH as therapy in a variety of clinical situations. The clinical presentation moves beyond the treatment of GH-deficient children to include the genetics of GH-deficiency, GH-deficiency in adults, osteoporosis, Syndrome X, sleep quality, GH in AIDS patients, GHRH in clinical studies. Timely and innovative, Human Growth Hormone: Research and Clinical Practice will benefit both basic and clinical researchers, as well as those clinical endocrinologists who want to use growth hormone not only in treating children, but also in treating adult disorders, including those associated with metabolic disease."--Publisher description (LoC) Investigations into the potential clinical applications of growth hormone (GH) has increased over the past 10 years, following the availability of human recombinant GH (hGH).