Growth Hormone and the Heart (Endocrine Updates Volume 9) (Endocrine Updates)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780792372127
Subjects: Endocrinology; Pathophysiology; Heart; Somatotropin; Cardiovascular Diseases; Hormones; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Cardiology; Diseases - Diabetes; Endocrinology & Metabolism; Medical / Diseases / Diabetes; Physiological effect; Diseases; Life Sciences - Biochemistry; Endocrine aspects
First sentence: Despite a series of elegant studies performed by Beznak in the fifties clearly demonstrating Growth Hormone (GH)'s role in maintaining a normal hypertrophie response following experimental aortic constriction (1-3), the cardiovascular role of the GH/IGF-1 axis was largely overlooked.