IGF and nutrition in health and disease
By: edited by M. Sue Houston, Jeffrey M.P. Holly, Eva L. Feldman.
Contributors: Houston, M. Sue.; Holly, Jeffrey M. P.; Feldman, Eva L.
Series: Nutrition and health; Nutrition and health (Totowa, N.J.)
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Somatomedin -- Physiological effect.; Somatomedin -- Pathophysiology.; Insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins.; Nutrition.; Insulin-Like Growth Factor I -- physiology.; Insulin-Like Growth Factor II -- physiology.; Disease.; Nutrition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview and molecular aspects of the insulin-like growth factor system / Martin L. Adamo ... [et al.]; title: Regulation of IGF-I by nutrition / Jean-Paul Thissen ... [et al.]; title: Nutrition and IGF proteins in chronic malnutrition and critical illness / Pei-Ra Ling and Bruce R. Bistrian; title: The insulin-like growth factors and assessment of nutritional status / M. Sue Houston; title: Regulation of growth and the insulin growth factor system by zinc / Ruth S. MacDonald; title: The role of the insulin-like growth factor system in pre- and postnatal growth, development, and tumorigenesis / Charles T. Roberts, Jr.; title: The insulin-like growth factor axis in the fetus and neonate / Cynthia L. Blanco and Robert J. Ferry; title: Nutrition and the IGF system in reproduction / Frank A. Simmen ... [et al.]; title: The insulin growth factor system and nutrition in adulthood and aging / Moira S. Lewitt and Kerstin Hall; title: Nutrition and insulin growth factor-I in relation to bone health and disease / Jean-Philippe Bonjour ... [et al.]; title: Effect of insulin growth factor proteins on skeletal muscle protein metabolism during normal and catabolic conditions / Charles H. Lang and Robert A. Frost; title: Insulin-like growth factors and nervous system disorders / Gary Meyer, Aparna Bole, and Eva L. Feldman; title: The kidney and the insulin-like growth factor system in health and disease / Ralph Rabkin, Steve S. Guest, and Franz Schaefer; title: The IGF and IGFBP system in insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus / Kerstin Brismar and Moira S. Lewitt; title: Insulin-like growth factors in relation to gastrointestinal diseases and parenteral nutrition / Denise M. Ney; title: Impact of critical illness on the growth hormone/insulin growth factor system in relation to other endocrine responses / Greet Van den Berghe; title: Mechanisms of cardiac hypertrophy and the development of heart failure: role of insulin-like growth factor-I and angiotensin II / Patrice Delafontaine, Marijke Brink, and Yao-Hua Song; title: Roles of the insulin-like growth factor system and nutrition in cancer / Claire M. Perks and Jeffrey M. P. Holly.