Endocrine diseases are disorders of the endocrine system. The branch of medicine associated with endocrine disorders is known as endocrinology. Broadly speaking, endocrine disorders may be subdivided into three groups: 1.Endocrine gland hyposecretion (leading to hormone deficiency).2.Endocrine gland hypersecretion (leading to hormone excess).3.Tumours (benign or malignant) of endocrine glands.Endocrine disorders are often quite complex, involving a mixed picture of hyposecretion and hypersecretion because of the feedback mechanisms involved in the endocrine system. For example, most forms of hyperthyroidism are associated with an excess of thyroid hormone and a low level of thyroid stimulating hormone.
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1
Development and Pathology of the Equine Mammary Gland
- Chapter 2
Contralateral parenchymal enhancement on breast MRI before and during neoadjuvant endocrine therapy in relation to the preoperative endocrine prognostic index
- Chapter 3
Transcription Factor Profiling Identifies Spatially Heterogenous Mediators of Follicular Thyroid Cancer Invasion
- Chapter 4
Protein Concentrations of Thrombospondin-1, MIP-1β, and S100A8 Suggest the Reflection of a Pregnancy Clock in Mid-Trimester Amniotic Fluid
- Chapter 5
Predictive role of HER2‑status on the effectiveness of endocrine adjuvant treatment in postmenopausal breast cancer patients:a population‑based cohort study
- Chapter 6
EUS is accurate in characterizing pancreatic cystic lesions; a prospective comparison with cross‑sectional imaging in resected cases
- Chapter 7
Emerging themes in idiopathic intracranial hypertension
- Chapter 8
Prevention, Detection, and Management of Heart Failure in Patients Treated for Breast Cancer
- Chapter 9
Voice perturbations under the stress overload in young individuals: phenotyping and suboptimal health as predictors for cascading pathologies
- Chapter 10
Type 2 diabetes – unmet need, unresolved pathogenesis, mTORC1-centric paradigm
- Chapter 11
The role of the tumour microenvironment in the angiogenesis of pituitary tumours
- Chapter 12
Reasoning in Life: Values and Normativity in Georges Canguilhem
- Chapter 13
Identifying Blood Transcriptome Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Transgenic Mice
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Endocrine Pathology
Katherine Hughes
Katherine Hughes, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Norman G. Nicolson
Norman G. Nicolson, Yale Endocrine Neoplasia Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Julius Juodakis
Julius Juodakis, Present address: School of Maths and Stats, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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