The prevention and clinical management of RDS are discussed in detail, of particular interest being the details of the use of Swan-Ganz catheters, anticoagulants in the management of intravascular coagulation, post end-expiratory pressure and intravenous nutrition. Not everyone will agree with the opinions expressed but their rational presentation supported by an excellent bibliography are cert...

Growth Hormone usually decreases following an elevation in blood glucose after a meal. It is usually increased during sleep or during starvation. It causes both retention of sodium and potassium which are required for growth metabolism. Elevated GH levels increase IGF-1 blood levels. Because IGF-1 levels are much more stable over the course of the day, they are often a more practical and reliab...

Henrik Toft Sørensen1 Søren Friborg2 Jørgen Rungby3 Jens Sandahl Christensen4 Allan Vaag5 Henning Beck-Nielsen6 1Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, 2Department of Endocrinology M, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, 3Department of Pharmacology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, 4Department of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Aarhus University Hospi...

GENERAL ENDOCRINOLOGY. By C. Donnell Turner. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1948. xii + 604 pp. $6.75. This book is the first edition of a text-book on general endocrinology and is aimed to meet the needs of the beginning student in experimental endocrinology. Clearly, the book accomplishes this rather modest aim and more. It is not intended to be a completely adequate handbook for the advan...

Pages 179 i have carried this useful book in my pocket and used it with benefit in clinical meetings. It is intended for hospital doctors as a guide to practical management of people with diabetes and endocrine disorders. It describes each gland, the normal function and its variants, the symptoms and signs, the tests which might be used to establish the diagnosis and treatment. There is a sensi...

Behavioral Endocrinology. By Jill B. Becker, S. Marc Breedlove, David Crews, and Margaret M. McCarthy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2002. 806 pp. $50.00. It is a rare thing to find a text written as clearly, as accurately, and that is as engaging as this! Although designed to provide a basic understanding of the field of behavioral endocrinology for the college and university-level stud...

Sunghwan Suh, Gi Hyeon Seo, Chang Hee Jung, Mee-Kyoung Kim, Sang-Man Jin, You-Cheol Hwang, Byung-Wan Lee, Jae Hyeon Kim Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Dong-A Medical Center, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, Seoul, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Asa...

modeling and simulation techniques are now widely used alongside with their experimental counterparts in order to complement them, or sometimes to bring first insights into the possible outcome of experiments. “modeling” is a general word that could encompass a wide range of methods that could be applied to a variety of subjects and problems. here, the use of selected molecular modeling methods...