Yearbook of pediatric endocrinology 2011
By: Endorsed by the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) ; editors: Jean-Claude Carel, Ze'ev Hochberg ; associate editors: Gary Butler [and others]
Series: Yearbook of Pediatric Endocrinology, 2011 -- v. 2011; Yearbook of Pediatric Endocrinology, 2011
Publisher: Karger
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9783805598606; 9783805598590
Subjects: Pediatric endocrinology; Children; Endocrinology; Child; Endocrinologie pédiatrique; Enfants; Endocrinologie; Children (people by age group); HEALTH & FITNESS; Children's Health; MEDICAL; Pediatrics
Description: The indispensable reference tool.
Notes: Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Neuroendocrinology; New in-vivo model and revised concept; New concept; title: How estradiol influences pubertal timing; Concept revised; title: Leptin does not act on the reproduction via kisspeptin neurons; New concerns; title: Brain differentiation and endocrine disruptors; New mechanism; title: Nesfatin-1 and puberty onset; New concept; title: How maternal care influences estradiol receptor function in adulthood; Concept revised; title: Sexual dimorphism of the GH network; New mechanism; title: Hypothalamic inflammation and pancreas function.; title: New concept; title: Adolescents are more plastic to stress than adultsNew mechanism; title: The importance of the perinatal photoperiod; new mechanism: the hypothalamic function of emotional tears; Pituitary; Mechanism of the year; title: microRNA; Not so new gene of the year; New paradigm; title: Pit-1 in breast cancer; New concept; title: important for clinical practice; New genes; title: Usp39 and Numb in pituitary development; New mutations; title: SOX3 and GLI2 in hypopituitarism; Concept revised; Follow-up on Yearbook 2010; title: HES1 in pituitary development; Reviews; title: ion channels and pituitary stem cells; Food for thought.; title: ThyroidImportant for clinical practice; Thyroid cancer and thyroid hormone receptors in cancer; New genetic studies; Environment; title: Iodine during pregnancy and lactation; Mechanism of the year; title: Extending the role of thyroid hormones for energy homeostasis; New mechanism; Concept revised; Growth and Growth Factors; New concerns; New mechanism; Important for clinical practice; Mechanism of the year; New paradigms; Clinical trials; Bone, Growth Plate and Mineral Metabolism; Mechanism of the year; title: Skeletons talk; title: now to the testes; New paradigms; title: Insulin promotes teamwork in the bone.; title: New hope; title: Ectopic bone; title: a RARe target?New concerns; title: Two words of caution when using bisphosphonates in children; New treatments; title: Anabolic action to combat pediatric secondary osteoporosis?; New genes; title: Success with next-generation sequencing in early-onset osteoporosis; New mechanism; title: Rapid growth plate fusion induced by loss of PTH/PTHrP receptor; Food for thought; title: Is insulin the major mediator of the obesity-associated growth acceleration?; Concepts revisited; title: Mice and men; title: maybe not so different after all?; New mechanisms; title: Buddy up the limb buds; title: bad timing without micro-RNAs.; title: Concepts revised; title: Time to reclassify pseudohypoparathyroidism?Important for clinical practice; title: Safe and sure treatment for congenital rickets; Clinical trials, new treatments; title: Replacement therapy for hypoparathyroidism; title: injections or pills?; New treatments; title: Calcitonin against Phosphatonin; title: who wins?; Concepts revised; title: Osteoclasts need their daily vitamin D; New hormones; title: Klotho in a hormone's clothing?; Reproductive Endocrinology 2011; Reviews; New concerns; title: booze, smoke and 'other' mild analgesics are harmful to sperm quality; ... but.; title: Mechanism of the year; title: Progesterone-induced Ca2+ influx in human sperm.