Cardiovascular Endocrinology: Introduction

An Introduction to Behavioral Endocrinology

chapter attempting to synthesize the major themes of the section. The book also contains fourteen additional abstracts, many of which leave the reader frustrated but often interested enough to wish for considerably more detail about each study. Nonetheless, the major individual contributions are a most valuable and important collection of papers and well worth the attention of investigators in ...

Introduction To Endocrinology: The Hypothalamic-Pituitary Axis

Endocrinology analyzes the biosynthesis of hormones, their sites of production, and the sites and mechanisms of their action and interaction. The term hormone is of Greek origin and classically refers to chemical messengers that circulate in body fluids and produce specific effects on cells distant from their point of origin. The major functions of hormones include the regulation of energy stor...

CARDIOVASCULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY Endogenous Sex Hormones and Cardiovascular Disease in Men

Introduction: Cardiovascular physics.

The number of patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases increases unproportionally high with the increase of the human population and aging, leading to very high expenses in the public health system. Therefore, the challenge of cardiovascular physics is to develop high-sophisticated methods which are able to, on the one hand, supplement and replace expensive medical devices and, on the ot...

Potential roles of ROR-α in cardiovascular endocrinology

Atherosclerosis is a chronic disease of the arteries whose development involves a local inflammatory response characterized by the activation of different cells such as macrophages, T-lymphocytes, smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and endothelial cells (ECs). This review will summarize recent evidence for a modulatory role of the nuclear receptor ROR-alpha in cardiovascular disease.