Menopause
Subtitle: Hormones and Cancer
Contributors: Manuel Neves-e-Castro (Editor); Barry Wren (Editor)
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: March 13, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781850706281
Subjects: Endocrinology; Gynaecology & obstetrics; Maturation & ageing; Oncology; Gynecology & Obstetrics; Medical; Menopause; Medical / Nursing; Medical / Gynecology & Obstetrics; Cancer in women; Cancer; Endocrine aspects; Hormone Therapy
First sentence: The term neurosteroid has been applied to those steroids that are synthesized in the nervous system either de novo from cholesterol or by in situ metabolism of blood-borne precursors, and that accumulate in the nervous system to levels that are at least in part independent of steroidogenic gland secretion rates.